Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 496

    (1)     This section applies if the director-general is preparing an annual review report for a child or young person.

    (2)     Before the director-general finalises the report, the director-general must, as far as is practicable and if the director-general considers it is in the child's or young person's best interests, arrange a meeting with the following people to discuss the matters that the director-general proposes to include in the report:

        (a)     if the director-general is satisfied that the child or young person can understand and take part in the meeting—the child or young person;

        (b)     each person who has daily care responsibility or long-term care responsibility for the child or young person;

        (c)     if the child or young person is placed with an out-of-home carer who is—

              (i)     a kinship carer—the kinship carer and the kinship carer's approved kinship and foster care organisation; or

              (ii)     for a foster carer—the foster carer and the foster carer's approved kinship and foster care organisation; or

              (iii)     for a residential care service—the residential care service;

        (d)     anyone else the director-general considers appropriate.

Examples—par (d)

1     the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people commissioner

2     the public advocate

    (3)     The matters discussed at the meeting may include sensitive information.

Note     Sensitive information is defined in s 845.