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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 370 Care and protection appraisal—obtaining agreement not in best interests of

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 370

Care and protection appraisal—obtaining agreement not in best interests of child or young person etc

    (1)     This section applies if the director-general suspects on reasonable grounds that obtaining agreement to carry out an appraisal from a parent or other person with daily care responsibility for a child or young person

        (a)     is not in the best interests of the child or young person; or

        (b)     would be likely to jeopardise a criminal investigation.

Examples par (a)—not in the best interests of child or young person

1     the parent or other person with daily care responsibility is the subject of an allegation of abuse or neglect of the child or young person

2     the parent's contact with the child or young person is not allowed, or is limited, under a court order (under this Act or another law in force in the Territory)

    (2)     The director-general may carry out a care and protection appraisal under section 371.