New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS (CARE AND PROTECTION) ACT 1998 - SECT 79AA

79AA Special circumstances that warrant allocation of parental responsibilities to Minister for more than 24 months

(1) This section applies if the Children's Court is deciding, under section 79(10), whether or not there are special circumstances that warrant the allocation of parental responsibility to the Minister for a period of more than 24 months.

(2) Without limiting the matters to which the Children's Court may have regard in making its decision, the Court may have regard to the following--

(a) whether support services and other resources that are reasonably required to support the restoration of the child or young person to the child's or young person's parents are available to the parents,

(b) if the services and other resources mentioned in paragraph (a) are not available at the time the Court is making its decision--whether a longer period of allocation of parental responsibility to the Minister is needed to facilitate access to the services or other resources,

(c) the active efforts made by the Secretary to restore the child or young person to the child's or young person's parents,

(d) any other matters prescribed by the regulations.