Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 197

In exercising a function under this division, the director-general must ensure, as far as practicable, that the following are balanced appropriately:

        (a)     the need to protect the safety of young detainees, authorised people, other people who work at or visit detention places, and the community;

        (b)     the need for security and good order at detention places;

        (c)     the benefits of young detainees maintaining contact with the community outside detention places;

        (d)     the need to protect the privacy of young detainees;

        (e)     the need to detect prohibited things entering, at, or leaving detention places;

        (f)     the need to prevent intimidation and corruption at detention places, and the commission of offences;

        (g)     anything else the director-general believes on reasonable grounds to be relevant.