Western Australian Current Acts

COMMISSIONER FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2006 - SECT 19

19 .         Functions

                The Commissioner has the following functions —

            (a)         to advocate for children and young people;

            (b)         to promote the participation of children and young people in the making of decisions that affect their lives and to encourage government and non-government agencies to seek the participation of children and young people appropriate to their age and maturity;

            (c)         to promote and monitor the wellbeing of children and young people generally;

            (d)         to monitor the way in which a government agency investigates or otherwise deals with a complaint made by a child or young person and the outcome of the complaint;

            (e)         to monitor the trends in complaints made by children and young people to government agencies;

            (f)         to initiate and conduct inquiries into any matter, including any written law or any practice, procedure or service, affecting the wellbeing of children and young people;

            (g)         to monitor and review written laws, draft laws, policies, practices and services affecting the wellbeing of children and young people;

            (h)         to promote public awareness and understanding of matters relating to the wellbeing of children and young people;

                  (i)         to conduct, coordinate, sponsor, participate in and promote research into matters relating to the wellbeing of children and young people;

            (j)         to conduct special inquiries under Part 5;

            (k)         on the Commissioner’s own initiative or at the request of the Minister or the Standing Committee, to advise the Minister on any matter relating to the wellbeing of children and young people;

            (l)         to consider, and make recommendations in relation to, any written laws, draft laws, reports, policies, practices, procedures or other matters relating to the wellbeing of children and young people that are referred to the Commissioner by the Minister or the Standing Committee;

        [(m)         deleted]

            (n)         to consult with children and young people from a broad range of socio-economic backgrounds and age groups throughout Western Australia each year;

            (o)         to do anything which the Commissioner considers is necessary or convenient to further the principle in section 3 or any of the guiding principles in section 4;

            (p)         to perform any other function conferred on the Commissioner by or under this Act or any other written law.

        [Section 19 amended: No. 46 of 2009 s. 5(3).]