Victorian Numbered Acts Victorian Numbered Acts(1) The Secretary must, as soon as practicable after receiving a report under section 185 that a child is in need of therapeutic treatment, investigate the subject-matter of the report in a way that will best promote the provision of assistance and, where appropriate, therapeutic treatment to the child.
(2) The Secretary, in carrying out the investigation—
(a) must inform the child and the child's parents that any information they give may be used for the purposes of a therapeutic treatment application; and
(b) must not disclose any information arising from the investigation to anyone other than—
(i) a court; or
(ii) a person referred to in any paragraph of section 211(2); or
(iii) a person to whom the Secretary believes on reasonable grounds that it is necessary to disclose the information to assist in the investigation of the subject-matter of the report.