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CHILDREN'S GUARDIAN ACT 2019 - SECT 145
Functions of Official Community Visitors
145 Functions of Official Community Visitors
(1) An Official Community Visitor may-- (a) enter and inspect a place where a
visitable service is provided at a reasonable time, and
(b) confer alone with
a child who is resident or person employed at the visitable service, and
(c)
inspect a document held at a visitable service, if the document relates to the
operation of a visitable service, having regard to the wishes of a child
resident at the visitable service to whom the document relates, and
(d)
provide the Minister and the Children's Guardian with advice or reports on any
matters relating to the conduct of a visitable service, and
(e) inform the
Minister and the Children's Guardian on matters affecting the welfare,
interests and conditions of children using visitable services, and
(f)
encourage the promotion of legal and human rights of children using
visitable services, including the right to privacy, confidentiality, adequate
information and consultation in relation to visitable services and the right
to complain, and
(f1) provide information about the Child Safe Standards to
assist both the visitable services and the children using the services, and
(g) consider matters raised by children using visitable services, staff of
providers of visitable services and people having a genuine concern for the
welfare, interests and conditions of children using visitable services, and
(h) provide information about independent advocacy services to help children
in the presentation of a grievance or matter of concern and, in appropriate
cases, assist children to obtain the services, and
(i) facilitate, if
reasonable and practicable, the early and speedy resolution of grievances or
matters of concern affecting children using visitable services by referring
grievances or matters to the providers of the relevant services or other
appropriate bodies, and
(j) exercise functions prescribed by the regulations
for the purposes of this section.
(2) An Official Community Visitor must, in
exercising a function under this section, act in a manner that preserves, as
far as possible, the privacy of each child resident at the premises at which a
visitable service is provided.
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