Queensland Numbered Acts

CHILD PROTECTION REFORM AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2022 - SECT 58

58 Insertion of new ch 4, pts 4 and 5

Chapter 4 —
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Part 4 - Support and training for approved carers

148E Chief executive’s responsibility to provide support and training

(1) This section applies in relation to an approved carer who is caring for a child under this Act.

(2) The chief executive must provide the approved carer with, or ensure the approved carer has access to, the following—

(a) support to help the carer care for the child, including, for example—

(i) information about financial assistance for approved carers; and

(ii) information and advice about providing care for children; and

(iii) respite care; and

(iv) access to support persons;

(b) training programs that maintain or develop the carer’s ability to care for children.

(3) The chief executive need only comply with subsection (2) to the extent the chief executive considers that—

(a) it is practicable to do so; and

(b) the support or training is appropriate in the circumstances.

Part 5 - Register of applicants, authority holders and former authority holders

148F Register of applicants, authority holders and former authority holders

(1) The chief executive must keep a register of the following persons—

(a) applicants for authorities;

(b) holders of authorities;

(c) former holders of authorities.

(2) The register must contain, for each person mentioned in subsection (1), the particulars prescribed by regulation that are available to the chief executive.

Note—

See chapter 6, part 6, division 2, subdivision 2 about the confidentiality of information recorded in the register.

(3) The register may be kept in the way the chief executive considers appropriate, including, for example, in an electronic form.