CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 536 What is a therapy plan?

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 536

In this Act:

"therapy plan", for a child or young person—

        (a)     means a plan to reduce the likelihood of the child or young person engaging in harmful conduct in the future arranged by the director-general in consultation, as far as is practicable, with—

              (i)     the child or young person; and

              (ii)     the parents of the child or young person; and

              (iii)     each other person (if any) who has daily care responsibility for the child or young person; and

              (iv)     the chair of the therapeutic support panel; and

              (v)     anyone else who is proposed to be involved in implementing the plan; and

        (b)     if the director-general has applied for an intensive therapy order that allows the director-general to issue a confinement direction in relation to the child or young person—includes written details of the following for any proposed period of confinement:

              (i)     the place of the proposed confinement;

              (ii)     when the period of confinement is to start and end;

              (iii)     the therapy, counselling or other service that is proposed for the child or young person;

              (iv)     the expected results of the therapy, counselling or other service;

              (v)     the education that is proposed for the child or young person;

              (vi)     the supervision that is proposed for the child or young person;

              (vii)     the proposed arrangements for the child or young person's contact with—

    (A)     family members; and

    (B)     significant people for the child or young person; and

    (C)     any other people;

              (viii)     for an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander child or young person—the proposed arrangements for the preservation and enhancement of the identity of the child or young person as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person.

Note 1     If the public advocate or an official visitor asks the director-general for a therapy plan for a child or young person, the director-general must provide a copy promptly (see s 595).

Note 2     If the child or young person is an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person, the director-general must also, if asked by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people commissioner, give a copy promptly to the commissioner (see s 595 (2)).