CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS (CARE AND PROTECTION) ACT 1998 - SECT 166
Leaving out-of-home care
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS (CARE AND PROTECTION) ACT 1998 - SECT 166
Leaving out-of-home care
(1) The designated agency having supervisory
responsibility for a child or young person must prepare a plan, in
consultation with the child or young person, before the child or young person
leaves out-of-home care.
(2) A plan is to include reasonable steps that will
prepare the child or young person and, if necessary, his or her parents, the
authorised carer and others who are significant to the child or young person
for the child's or person's leaving out-of-home care.
(3) The
designated agency is to implement the plan when the child or young person
leaves out-of-home care.
