Queensland Numbered Acts

CHILD PROTECTION AND OTHER ACTS AMENDMENT ACT 2010 No. 33 - SECT 36

After section 51V--

insert--

'(1) This section applies if the child has a long-term guardian.

'(2) The chief executive must contact the child at least once every 12 months to give the child an opportunity to make comments or queries about, or ask for a review of, the child's case plan.

'(3) The long-term guardian must allow the chief executive to have contact with the child at least once every 12 months.

'(4) At any time, the child or the long-term guardian may ask the chief executive to review the case plan.

'(5) On a request under subsection (4)--

(a) the chief executive may decide not to review the plan if satisfied it would not be appropriate in all the circumstances; or

Example--

It may not be appropriate to review a case plan when it has been recently reviewed and the child's circumstances have not changed significantly since the plan was finalised.

(b) otherwise, the chief executive must review the plan and prepare--

(i) a report about the review under section 51X; and

(ii) a revised case plan.

'(6) If, on a request under subsection (4), the chief executive decides not to review the case plan, the chief executive must give written notice of the decision to--

(a) the person who made the request; and

(b) if it was the child who made the request--the long-term guardian.

'(7) The notice mentioned in subsection (6) must comply with the QCAT Act, section 157(2).'.