CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 234 Director-general may allow young child to stay with young detainee

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 234

    (1)     This section applies to a young detainee if—

        (a)     the young detainee has a child who is under 6 years old and not enrolled in school; and

        (b)     before being detained, the young detainee was the primary caregiver for the child or was having contact with the child.

    (2)     The director-general may, by direction, allow the young detainee to have contact with, or care for, the child in a detention place.

    (3)     However, the director-general must not give a direction under subsection (2) unless the director-general—

        (a)     has carried out a care and protection appraisal of the child; and

        (b)     is satisfied that it is in the best interests of the child for the young detainee to have contact with, or care for, the child in the detention place.

    (4)     The director-general may make a youth detention policy or operating procedure about the arrangements to apply in relation to a young detainee having contact with, or caring for, a child in a detention place.