Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 507

    (1)     This section applies if—

        (a)     the director-general receives a voluntary report or a mandatory report about a child or young person; and

        (b)     because of the report, the director-general believes the child or young person is at risk of significant harm; 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).