New South Wales Consolidated Acts

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

79E Entry to premises of prospective guardians

(1) For the purposes of assessing a prospective guardian's suitability to be a guardian, a supervising person may, with the consent of the prospective guardian--

(a) enter and inspect the residential premises of the prospective guardian where a child or young person is intended to reside, and

(b) inspect a document or thing on the premises, and

(c) interview the prospective guardian, and

(d) interview any other person on the premises.

(2) An assessment of a prospective guardian's suitability extends to the assessment of persons residing on the same property as the prospective guardian for 3 weeks or more.

(3) In this section--

"reside on a property" has the same meaning as in the Child Protection (Working with Children) Act 2012 .

"supervising person" means--

(a) the Secretary, or

(b) if the prospective guardian is an authorised carer--an officer or employee of the designated agency that--

(i) authorised the prospective guardian as an authorised carer, or

(ii) has supervisory responsibility for a child or young person in the care of the authorised carer.