CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 489 What is a supervision provision?
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 489
What is a supervision provision?(1) In the care and protection chapters:
"supervision provision", in a care and protection order, or an interim care and protection order, for a child or young person, means a provision placing the child or young person, for the period stated in the order, under the supervision of the director-general.
Note If a care and protection order including a supervision provision is in force for the child or young person for longer than 6 months, the director-general must prepare an annual review report for the child or young person (see pt 14.13).
(2) A supervision provision may, but need not, include 1 or more of the following requirements:
(a) that 1 or more of the following people must report to the director-general at the reasonable times and places stated by the director-general:
(i) the child or young person;
(ii) a parent of the child or young person;
(iii) someone else who has daily care responsibility, or long-term care responsibility, for the child or young person;
(b) that 1 or more of the following people must take part in discussions with the director-general about the child's or young person's care, wellbeing or development:
(i) the child or young person;
(ii) a parent of the child or young person;
(iii) someone else who has daily care responsibility, or long-term care responsibility, for the child or young person;
Example—discussion about care, wellbeing or development
a discussion about whether the child or young person should undertake some form of education, vocational or recreational activity
(c) that a person with parental responsibility for the child or young person allow the director-general entry to stated premises for the purpose of supervising the care and protection of the child or young person.
(3) Subsection (2) does not limit the matters for which the Childrens Court may make a supervision provision.