CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 174 Telephone calls
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 174
Telephone calls(1) The director-general must ensure that each detention place has telephone facilities for young detainees to make and receive telephone calls.
(2) A young detainee may make—
(a) 1 telephone call on admission to a detention place; and
(b) 2 telephone calls each week to a family member or a significant person.
(3) A young detainee may also make and receive further telephone calls for necessary contact with a family member, significant person, friend or associate.
(4) The director-general must pay for telephone calls made by a young detainee unless the director-general believes on reasonable grounds that it is appropriate for the young detainee to pay for the calls.
(5) For chapter 8, subsections (2) and (3) are taken to provide entitlements for each young detainee in relation to telephone calls.
(6) However, the director-general may give directions denying or limiting the use of a telephone by a young detainee for a call mentioned in subsection (2) or (3) if the director-general suspects on reasonable grounds that—
(a) the call may—
(i) undermine security or good order at a detention place; or
(ii) revictimise a victim; or
(iii) circumvent any process for investigating complaints or reviewing decisions under this Act; or
(iv) have the purpose of causing community distress; or
(v) cause harm to the young detainee; or
(b) the direction is necessary and reasonable to safeguard the best interests of the young detainee.
(7) Also, subsections (2) and (3) are subject to—
(a) section 200 (Monitoring telephone calls etc); and
(b) any operating procedure mentioned in subsection (8).
(8) An operating procedure may include provision regulating the following in relation to young detainees' telephone calls:
(a) the times for making or receiving calls;
(b) the frequency and length of calls;
(c) payment for the cost of calls made.