CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 507 Public advocate etc to be told about action following appraisals
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 507
Public advocate etc to be told about action following appraisals(1) This section applies if—
(a) the director-general decides that a child concern report about a child or young person is a child protection report; and
(b) because of the report, the director-general carries out a child protection appraisal for the child or young person; and
(c) at the time of the incident that gave rise to the report, the director-general had daily care responsibility for the child or young person and had placed the child or young person with an out-of-home carer under part 15.4; and
Note The director-general may have daily care responsibility for a child or young person under any of the following provisions:
(a) an appraisal order including a temporary parental responsibility provision (see s 373);
(b) a voluntary care agreement (see pt 12.3);
(c) emergency action (see pt 13.1);
(d) a care and protection order including a parental responsibility provision (see pt 14.6).
(d) the incident that gave rise to the report either—
(i) involved the out-of-home carer; or
(ii) happened while the child or young person was taking part in a contact visit with someone and the contact was—
(A) allowed under a contact provision in a care and protection order; or
Note Contact provisions are dealt with in pt 14.8.
(B) approved by the director-general.
(2) The director-general must give the public advocate a report about—
(a) the incident; and
(b) what action (if any) the director-general has taken because of the appraisal.
(3)
If the child or young person is an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander
person, the director-general must also give the Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander children and young people commissioner the report mentioned in
subsection (2).