CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 176 News and education

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 176

    (1)     The director-general must ensure, as far as practicable, that young detainees have reasonable access to—

        (a)     newspapers, radio and television broadcasts and other mass media (including the internet) for news and information; and

        (b)     a library or library service; and

        (c)     education or training designed to meet the young detainee's individual needs.

    (2)     The director-general must, as part of a young detainee's case management plan, approve a young detainee participating in academic, vocational or cultural education or training if satisfied it would benefit the young detainee in any of the following ways:

        (a)     by providing the young detainee with suitable vocational skills;

        (b)     by promoting the young detainee's rehabilitation or reintegration into society;

        (c)     by contributing satisfactorily to the young detainee's personal development.

    (3)     For chapter 8, participation in education or training approved under subsection (2) is taken to be an entitlement for the young detainee in relation to news and education.