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Queensland
Child Safety Legislation
Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2004
Queensland
Child Safety Legislation Amendment Bill
(No. 2) 2004
Contents
Page
Part 1 Preliminary
1 Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2 Commencement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Part 2 Amendment of Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration
Act 2003
3 Act amended in pt 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4 Amendment of s 48A (Registrar to give notice of registration of
child death to commissioner) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Part 3 Amendment of Child Care Act 2002
5 Act amended in pt 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
6 Amendment of s 26 (Suitability of licensee and related persons) 9
7 Amendment of s 97 (Suitability of other persons in a home) . . . . 9
8 Insertion of new s 165A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
165A Pending application for a suitability notice--corporate
licensee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
9 Insertion of new s 166A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
166A Pending application for a suitability notice--licensed
home based service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Part 4 Amendment of Child Protection Act 1999
10 Act amended in pt 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
11 Insertion of new s 3A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3A Notes in text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
12 Amendment of s 6 (Provisions about Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander children) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
13 Amendment of s 7 (Chief executive's functions). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
14 Amendment of s 22 (Protection from liability for notification of, or
information given about, alleged harm or risk of harm) . . . . . . . . 12
15 Insertion of new ch 2, pt 3A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
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Part 3A Case planning
Division 1 Preliminary
51A What is case planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
51B What is a case plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
51C Children for whom case plans are required . . . . . . . . 13
51D How case planning must be carried out . . . . . . . . . . . 14
51E Who is a child's family group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
51F Meaning of parent in pt 3A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Division 2 Family group meetings
51G Purposes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
51H Convening a meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
51I Private convenors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
51J Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Division 3 Case planning at a family group meeting
51K Application of div 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
51L Who should be involved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
51M Preparing for the meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
51N Obtaining the views of persons not attending . . . . . . 19
51O Recording the case plan developed at the meeting . . 20
51P Development of plan at more than 1 meeting. . . . . . . 20
Division 4 Other steps in the case planning process
51Q Dealing with a case plan developed at a meeting . . . 20
51R Dealing with an inappropriate plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
51S Preparing the plan if not developed at a meeting . . . . 21
51T Distributing and implementing the plan . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Division 5 Periodically reviewing the case plan
51U Application of div 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
51V Plan must be reviewed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
51W Who may participate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
51X Report about the review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
51Y Distributing and implementing the revised case plan . 25
16 Amendment of s 59 (Making of child protection order). . . . . . . . . 26
17 Amendment of s 68 (Court's other powers on adjournment of
proceedings for child protection orders) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
18 Insertion of new s 83A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
83A Giving information to carers and children. . . . . . . . . . 27
19 Amendment of s 84 (Agreements to provide care for children) . . 28
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20 Omission of s 88 (Chief executive to regularly review
arrangements for child's protection) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
21 Amendment of s 95 (Report about person's criminal history etc.) 29
22 Omission of s 96 (Family meetings) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
23 Omission of s 158 (Coordination). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
24 Insertion of new ch 5A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Chapter 5A Service Delivery Co-ordination and
Information Exchange
Part 1 Preliminary
159A Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
159B Principles for co-ordinating service delivery and
exchanging information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
159C What is relevant information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
159D Other definitions for ch 5A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
159E Reference to family services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Part 2 Service delivery co-ordination
159F Service providers' responsibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
159G Chief executive's responsibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
159H Chief executive may ask particular prescribed entities
to provide a service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Part 3 The SCAN system
159I Establishment of system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
159J Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
159K Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
159L Responsibilities of the core members . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Part 4 Information exchange
159M Particular prescribed entities giving and receiving
relevant information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
159N Information requirement made by chief executive or
authorised officer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Part 5 Release of health information or information
relevant to coronial investigation
159O Release of information by health service employees . 40
159P Release of information for an investigation under the
Coroners Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Part 6 Protection from liability and interaction with
other laws
159Q Protection from liability for giving information . . . . . . . 42
159R Interaction with other laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
25 Amendment of s 172 (Issue of warrant) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
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26 Amendment of s 182 (Evidentiary provisions) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
27 Replacement of s 187 (Confidentiality of information obtained by
persons involved in administration of Act) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
187 Confidentiality of information obtained by persons
involved in administration of Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
28 Amendment of s 188 (Confidentiality of information given by
persons involved in administration of Act to other persons) . . . . . 46
29 Insertion of new s 188A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
188A Police use of confidential information . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
30 Omission of ch 6 (Enforcement and legal proceedings), pt 6
(Confidentiality), div 4 (General). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
31 Amendment of s 197 (Protection from liability). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
32 Amendment of s 214 (Court may transfer order) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
33 Insertion of new s 248B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
248B Consultation about investigations and prosecutions . 48
34 Amendment of s 249 (Regulation-making powers) . . . . . . . . . . . 49
35 Insertion of new ch 9, pt 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Part 4 Transitional provision for Child Safety
Legislation Amendment Act (No. 2) 2004
262 Transitional--case planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
36 Amendment of sch 3 (Dictionary) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Part 5 Amendment of Commission for Children and Young People
and Child Guardian Act 2000
37 Act amended in pt 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
38 Amendment of s 7A (Scope of Act relating to children in the child
safety system) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
39 Amendment of s 15 (Commissioner's functions) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
40 Insertion of new s 15AA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
15AA Monitoring functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
41 Amendment of s 18 (Way in which commissioner is to perform
commissioner's functions) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
42 Amendment of s 31B (Service providers to which this part
applies) ..................................... 53
43 Amendment of s 31C (Power to require information or
documents) ................................... 54
44 Amendment of s 31D (Access to documents of the child safety
department) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
45 Insertion of new ss 31DA and DB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
31DA Access to information and documents of a relevant
service provider other than the child safety
department ........................... 55
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31DB Exempt information and documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
46 Insertion of new ss 31EA--31EC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
31EA Protection from liability for giving information . . . . . . . 57
31EB Restricted use of confidential information accessed
under this part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
31EC Commissioner to advise on-disclosure. . . . . . . . . . . . 59
47 Amendment of s 31G (Review of service) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
48 Amendment of s 31H (Recommendations) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
49 Amendment of s 31I (Report to Minister about noncompliance) . 60
50 Amendment of s 46 (Identity of notifier under Child Protection
Act 1999) ..................................... 60
51 Amendment of s 89ZA (Annual report). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
52 Amendment of s 145 (Evidentiary provisions) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
53 Amendment of s 152 (Confidentiality of information about
criminal history) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
54 Amendment of s 153 (Confidentiality of other information) . . . . . 62
55 Amendment of s 161 (Protection from liability). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
56 Amendment of sch 4 (Dictionary) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Part 6 Amendment of Coroners Act 2003
57 Act amended in pt 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
58 Amendment of s 53 (Access to investigation documents for
research purposes) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
59 Amendment of s 54 (Access to investigation documents for other
purposes) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
60 Amendment of sch 2 (Dictionary) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Part 7 Amendment of Family Services Act 1987
61 Act amended in pt 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
62 Insertion of new s 30A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
30A Delegation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Part 8 Amendment of Health Act 1937
63 Act amended in pt 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
64 Amendment of s 5 (Interpretation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
65 Replacement of pt 3, div 6, hdg (Maltreatment of children) . . . . . 65
66 Replacement of s 76K (Notification of maltreatment). . . . . . . . . . 65
76K Definitions for div 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
76KA Meaning of parent for div 6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
76KB Relationship with Child Protection Act 1999. . . . . . . . 67
76KC Mandatory reporting--immediate notice . . . . . . . . . . 67
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76KD Mandatory reporting--follow-up notice. . . . . . . . . . . . 68
76KE Offence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
76KF Further information may be required . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
76KG Protection from liability for giving information to
professional ......................... 69
76KH Confidentiality of notifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
67 Amendment of s 76L (Temporary custody of children). . . . . . . . . 72
68 Omission of s 76M (Meaning of child for division) . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Part 9 Amendment of Juvenile Justice Act 1992
69 Act amended in pt 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
70 Amendment of s 257 (Interpretation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
71 Amendment of s 259 (Show cause hearing) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
72 Amendment of sch 4 (Dictionary) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
2004
A Bill
for
An Act to amend particular Acts to increase child safety, and
for other purposes
s1 8 s4
Child Safety Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2004
The Parliament of Queensland enacts--` 1
Part 1 Preliminary 2
Clause 1 Short title 3
This Act may be cited as the Child Safety Legislation 4
Amendment Act (No. 2) 2004. 5
Clause 2 Commencement 6
(1) Parts 1, 2, 3, 7 and 9 commence on assent. 7
(2) The remaining provisions of this Act commence on a day to 8
be fixed by proclamation. 9
Part 2 Amendment of Births, Deaths 10
and Marriages Registration Act 11
2003 12
Clause 3 Act amended in pt 2 13
This part amends the Births, Deaths and Marriages 14
Registration Act 2003. 15
Clause 4 Amendment of s 48A (Registrar to give notice of 16
registration of child death to commissioner) 17
Section 48A(3)(b)(ii), before `place'-- 18
insert-- 19
`date and'. 20
s5 9 s8
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Part 3 Amendment of Child Care Act 1
2002 2
Clause 5 Act amended in pt 3 3
This part amends the Child Care Act 2002. 4
Clause 6 Amendment of s 26 (Suitability of licensee and related 5
persons) 6
Section 26, before subsection (3)-- 7
insert-- 8
`(2A) Subsection (2) applies subject to section 165A.1'. 9
Clause 7 Amendment of s 97 (Suitability of other persons in a 10
home) 11
Section 97-- 12
insert-- 13
`(1A) Subsection (1) applies subject to section 166A.2'. 14
Clause 8 Insertion of new s 165A 15
After section 165-- 16
insert-- 17
`165A Pending application for a suitability notice--corporate 18
licensee 19
`(1) This section applies if-- 20
(a) a corporation holds a licence; and 21
(b) an individual who does not have a suitability notice 22
becomes an executive officer of the corporation or the 23
nominee for the licence; and 24
1 Section 165A (Pending application for a suitability notice--corporate licensee)
2 Section 166A (Pending application for a suitability notice--licensed home based
service)
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(c) an application for a suitability notice is made for the 1
individual. 2
`(2) Section 26(2) does not apply to the individual until the 3
application is decided, or is withdrawn or lapses.'. 4
Clause 9 Insertion of new s 166A 5
After section 166-- 6
insert-- 7
`166A Pending application for a suitability notice--licensed 8
home based service 9
`(1) This section applies to a carer in a licensed home based 10
service if-- 11
(a) an occupant of the carer's home, who does not have a 12
suitability notice, becomes an adult; and 13
(b) an application for a suitability notice is made for the 14
occupant. 15
`(2) Until the application is decided, or is withdrawn or lapses, the 16
carer does not commit an offence against section 97(1)3 17
merely by providing child care in the carer's home, in the 18
course of the service, while the occupant does not have a 19
current positive suitability notice.'. 20
Part 4 Amendment of Child Protection 21
Act 1999 22
Clause 10 Act amended in pt 4 23
This part amends the Child Protection Act 1999. 24
3 Section 97 (Suitability of other persons in a home)
s 11 11 s 13
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Clause 11 Insertion of new s 3A 1
Chapter 1, part 1, after section 3-- 2
insert-- 3
`3A Notes in text 4
`A note in the text of this Act is part of this Act.'. 5
Clause 12 Amendment of s 6 (Provisions about Aboriginal and 6
Torres Strait Islander children) 7
Section 6(4), `family meetings'-- 8
omit, insert-- 9
`family group meetings'. 10
Clause 13 Amendment of s 7 (Chief executive's functions) 11
(1) Section 7(l), after `children'-- 12
insert-- 13
`or provide services to children in need of protection or their 14
families'. 15
(2) Section 7(m), `licensed residential facilities'-- 16
omit, insert-- 17
`care'. 18
(3) Section 7-- 19
insert-- 20
`(2) In this section-- 21
child in care means a child-- 22
(a) who is in the chief executive's custody or guardianship; 23
or 24
(b) who, under an agreement entered into by the chief 25
executive and a parent of the child, has been placed in 26
the care of someone other than a parent of the child.'. 27
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Clause 14 Amendment of s 22 (Protection from liability for 1
notification of, or information given about, alleged harm 2
or risk of harm) 3
(1) Section 22(2)-- 4
omit, insert-- 5
`(2) The person is not liable, civilly, criminally or under an 6
administrative process, for giving the notification or 7
information.'. 8
(2) Section 22-- 9
insert-- 10
`(4) Without limiting subsections (2) and (3)-- 11
(a) in a proceeding for defamation, the person has a defence 12
of absolute privilege for publishing the information; and 13
(b) if the person would otherwise be required to maintain 14
confidentiality about the information under an Act, oath 15
or rule of law or practice, the person-- 16
(i) does not contravene the Act, oath or rule of law or 17
practice by giving the information; and 18
(ii) is not liable to disciplinary action for giving the 19
information.'. 20
Clause 15 Insertion of new ch 2, pt 3A 21
Chapter 2, after part 3-- 22
insert-- 23
`Part 3A Case planning 24
`Division 1 Preliminary 25
`51A What is case planning 26
`Case planning is the process of developing a case plan for a 27
child and then regularly reviewing it. 28
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`51B What is a case plan 1
`(1) A case plan for a child is a written plan for meeting the child's 2
protection and care needs. 3
`(2) A case plan may include any of the following matters-- 4
(a) a goal or goals to be achieved by implementing the plan; 5
(b) arrangements about where or with whom the child will 6
live, including interim arrangements; 7
(c) services to be provided to meet the child's protection 8
and care needs and promote the child's future wellbeing; 9
(d) matters for which the chief executive will be 10
responsible, including particular support or services; 11
(e) the child's contact with the child's family group or other 12
persons with whom the child is connected; 13
(f) arrangements for maintaining the child's ethnic and 14
cultural identity; 15
(g) matters for which a parent or carer will be responsible; 16
(h) a proposed review day for the plan. 17
`51C Children for whom case plans are required 18
`The chief executive must ensure a case plan is developed for 19
each child who the chief executive is satisfied-- 20
(a) is a child in need of protection; and 21
(b) needs ongoing help under this Act. 22
23
Notes--
24
1 Ongoing help under this Act may be, for example--
25
· giving support services to the child and his or her family
26
· arranging for the child to be placed in someone's care by
27
agreement with the child's parents
28
· seeking a child protection order for the child.
29
2 A case plan may not be required for a particular child because
30
another entity is working to address the child's protection and care
31
needs and, as part of the work, is undertaking case planning with
32
the child and the child's family.
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`51D How case planning must be carried out 1
`(1) The chief executive must ensure case planning for a child is 2
carried out in a way-- 3
(a) that enables timely decision-making; and 4
(b) that is consistent with the principles for administering 5
this Act;4 and 6
(c) that encourages and facilitates the participation of-- 7
(i) the child; and 8
(ii) the child's parents; and 9
(iii) other appropriate members of the child's family 10
group; and 11
(iv) for an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander 12
child--Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander 13
agencies and persons; and 14
15
Note--
16
Section 6(4) requires consultations, negotiations, family
17
group meetings and other proceedings involving an
18
Aboriginal person or Torres Strait Islander to be
19
conducted in a way and in a place that is appropriate to
20
Aboriginal tradition or Island custom.
(v) other appropriate persons; and 21
(d) that facilitates input from other appropriate entities; and 22
23
Example of input from another entity--
24
Information given by a local health agency about services
25
available to a family.
(e) that gives priority to the child's needs for long-term 26
stable care and continuity of relationships; and 27
(f) that enables the persons involved to understand it. 28
29
Examples for paragraph (f)--
30
1 The chief executive should explain the case planning
31
process to a child using language appropriate to the child's
32
age, language skills and circumstances.
4 See section 5 (Principles for administration of Act)
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2 The chief executive should tell a child's parents about child
2
protection concerns, and explain steps in the case planning
3
process to them, in a way that helps them to understand, ask
4
questions and participate in any discussion. For a parent
5
from a non-English speaking background, this may involve
6
the use of an interpreter.
`(2) The chief executive must give participants in case planning 7
the information they reasonably need to participate 8
effectively. 9
`(3) The information must be given to the participants in a timely 10
way to facilitate their effective participation. 11
`51E Who is a child's family group 12
For this part, a child's family group includes-- 13
(a) members of the child's extended family; and 14
(b) if the child belongs to a clan, tribe or similar 15
group--members of that group; and 16
(c) anyone else recognised by persons mentioned in 17
paragraph (a) or (b) as belonging to the child's family. 18
`51F Meaning of parent in pt 3A 19
In this part-- 20
parent, of a child, means each of the following persons-- 21
(a) the child's mother or father; 22
(b) a person in whose favour a residence order or contact 23
order for the child is in operation under the Family Law 24
Act 1975 (Cwlth); 25
(c) a person, other than the chief executive, having custody 26
or guardianship of the child under a law of the State or 27
another State; 28
(d) if the child is in a person's custody or guardianship 29
under this Act-- 30
(i) the child's mother or father; and 31
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(ii) anyone else who would be the child's parent under 1
paragraph (b) or (c) if the child were not in the 2
person's custody or guardianship under this Act. 3
`Division 2 Family group meetings 4
`51G Purposes 5
`The purposes of family group meetings are-- 6
(a) to provide family-based responses to children's 7
protection and care needs; and 8
(b) to ensure an inclusive process for planning and making 9
decisions relating to children's wellbeing and protection 10
and care needs. 11
`51H Convening a meeting 12
`(1) The chief executive must convene a family group meeting, or 13
have a private convenor convene a family group meeting, to 14
develop a case plan for a child. 15
`(2) A family group meeting convened to develop a case plan is a 16
case planning meeting. 17
`(3) The chief executive may also convene a family group meeting 18
or have a private convenor convene a family group meeting-- 19
(a) to review a case plan under division 5 and prepare a 20
revised case plan; or 21
(b) to consider, make recommendations about, or otherwise 22
deal with, another matter relating to the child's 23
wellbeing and protection and care needs. 24
`(4) Also, under section 68, the Childrens Court may order that a 25
family group meeting be convened. 26
`51I Private convenors 27
`(1) A private convenor is a person, other than the chief executive 28
or a delegate or other representative of the chief executive, 29
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who convenes a family group meeting under this part by 1
arrangement with the chief executive. 2
`(2) The chief executive may have a person convene a family 3
group meeting as a private convenor only if the chief 4
executive is satisfied the person is appropriately qualified. 5
`(3) If the chief executive has a private convenor convene a family 6
group meeting, the chief executive must ensure the private 7
convenor complies with this part in relation to the meeting. 8
`(4) For section 197(3),5 definition official, a private convenor is a 9
person acting under the direction of the chief executive. 10
`51J Function 11
`(1) The function of a family group meeting is to deal with the 12
matters, relating to a child's protection and care needs or 13
wellbeing, for which the meeting was convened. 14
`(2) For a case planning meeting, this includes-- 15
(a) considering the child's protection and care needs; and 16
(b) agreeing on a plan to meet those needs and promote the 17
child's wellbeing. 18
`Division 3 Case planning at a family group 19
meeting 20
`51K Application of div 3 21
`This division applies to a case planning meeting. 22
`51L Who should be involved 23
`(1) The convenor must give the following persons a reasonable 24
opportunity to attend and participate in the meeting-- 25
(a) the child, unless it would be inappropriate because of 26
the child's age or ability to understand; 27
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(b) the child's parents; 1
(c) other members of the child's family group who the 2
convenor considers likely to make a useful contribution 3
to the plan's development at the meeting; 4
(d) other persons with whom the child has a significant 5
relationship; 6
7
Example--
8
A foster carer may be someone with whom the child has a
9
significant relationship.
(e) any legal representative of the child; 10
(f) if the child is an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander 11
child--a member of the recognised Aboriginal or Torres 12
Strait Islander agency for the child; 13
(g) anyone else who the convenor considers likely to make a 14
useful contribution to the plan's development at the 15
meeting; 16
(h) if the convenor is a private convenor--the chief 17
executive. 18
`(2) The convenor must also allow the child or a parent of the child 19
to have someone attend and participate in the meeting to give 20
help or support to the child or parent. 21
22
Examples--
23
· a youth worker
24
· an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander elder
25
· a representative within the child's cultural community
26
· a legal representative
`(3) To remove any doubt, it is declared that a requirement to allow 27
a person to attend or participate in the meeting under 28
subsection (1) or (2) applies whether or not the child's parents 29
agree to the person's attendance or participation. 30
`(4) The convenor is not required to allow a particular person to 31
attend or participate in the meeting under subsection (1)(b) to 32
(d) or (2) if the convenor is satisfied that person's attendance 33
or participation would be contrary to the purposes of the 34
meeting or not in the child's best interests. 35
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`51M Preparing for the meeting 1
`(1) Before holding the meeting, the convenor must inform the 2
invitees-- 3
(a) that the chief executive considers the child is a child in 4
need of protection; and 5
(b) the assessed risks to the child and the child's assessed 6
needs; and 7
(c) details of the proposed meeting, including-- 8
(i) the proposed day, time and venue for the meeting; 9
and 10
(ii) the purpose and functions of the meeting; and 11
(iii) particular issues to be addressed at the meeting; 12
and 13
(iv) the opportunities for attendees to identify issues or 14
deal with particular issues. 15
`(2) In this section-- 16
invitee means a person mentioned in section 51L(1) other than 17
a person mentioned in section 51L(4). 18
`51N Obtaining the views of persons not attending 19
`The convenor must take reasonable steps to ascertain before 20
the meeting, and make known at the meeting, the views 21
relevant to the meeting of the following persons and entities-- 22
(a) the child, if the child's views may reasonably be 23
ascertained and the convenor does not expect the child 24
to be attending; 25
(b) another person mentioned in section 51L(1) who 26
notifies the convenor that he or she will not be attending; 27
(c) a member of the child's family group who, under 28
section 51L(4), has not been invited to the meeting but 29
whose views, in the convenor's opinion, should be 30
obtained; 31
(d) a relevant service provider. 32
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1
Example of a relevant service provider--
2
A member of the SCAN system involved in assessing and
3
responding to the child's protection needs.
`51O Recording the case plan developed at the meeting 4
`If a case plan is developed at the meeting, the convenor must 5
record the plan in the approved form and, if the convenor is a 6
private convenor, give it to the chief executive. 7
`51P Development of plan at more than 1 meeting 8
`A case plan may be developed at more than 1 meeting under 9
this division. 10
`Division 4 Other steps in the case planning 11
process 12
`51Q Dealing with a case plan developed at a meeting 13
`Within 7 days after a case plan is developed at a case 14
planning meeting, the chief executive must endorse the plan 15
unless section 51R applies. 16
`51R Dealing with an inappropriate plan 17
`(1) This section applies if the chief executive is satisfied a case 18
plan developed at a case planning meeting, or something in 19
the plan, is clearly impracticable or not in the child's best 20
interests. 21
`(2) The chief executive may-- 22
(a) reconvene, or have a private convenor reconvene, the 23
case planning meeting under division 3 to develop an 24
amended case plan; or 25
(b) convene, or have a private convenor convene, another 26
case planning meeting under division 3 to develop an 27
amended case plan; or 28
(c) amend the case plan and endorse the amended plan. 29
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`(3) The chief executive may amend the case plan under 1
subsection (2)(c)-- 2
(a) only to the extent necessary to ensure the plan is 3
practicable and in the child's best interests; and 4
(b) only within 7 days after the case planning meeting at 5
which it was developed; and 6
(c) if the meeting was convened by a private convenor, only 7
after consulting with the private convenor. 8
`(4) If the chief executive amends the case plan under 9
subsection (2)(c), the chief executive must give written notice 10
of the amendment, and the reasons for the amendment, to each 11
person who was at the meeting at which the plan was 12
developed. 13
`51S Preparing the plan if not developed at a meeting 14
`(1) This section applies if a case plan is not developed at the case 15
planning meeting or meetings held under division 3. 16
`(2) This section also applies if it has not been possible for the 17
chief executive to convene a family group meeting, or have a 18
private convenor convene a family group meeting, under 19
section 51H(1). 20
`(3) The chief executive must-- 21
(a) take reasonable steps to obtain the views of any of the 22
following persons and entities whose views have not yet 23
been obtained-- 24
(i) the child, if the child's views may reasonably be 25
ascertained; 26
(ii) another person mentioned in section 51L(1); 27
(iii) another member of the child's family group whose 28
views, in the chief executive's opinion, should be 29
obtained; 30
(iv) a relevant service provider; and 31
(b) having regard to the views (if any), prepare a case plan, 32
in the approved form, that the chief executive is satisfied 33
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best meets the child's protection and care needs and 1
endorse the plan. 2
`(4) If the meeting mentioned in subsection (1) was convened 3
under a court order under section 68(1)(d)(i), the chief 4
executive must file the plan prepared under this section in the 5
court. 6
`51T Distributing and implementing the plan 7
`After a case plan has been recorded in the approved form and 8
endorsed, the chief executive must-- 9
(a) give a copy of the plan to the child, unless that would be 10
inappropriate having regard to the child's age and ability 11
to understand; and 12
(b) explain the plan to the child in a way, and to an extent, 13
that is reasonable, having regard to the child's age and 14
ability to understand; and 15
(c) give a copy of the plan to-- 16
(i) the child's parents; and 17
(ii) anyone else affected by the plan or who the chief 18
executive considers should receive a copy; and 19
20
Examples of persons who may be given a copy--
21
· a foster carer
22
· an elder or other respected person of the child's
23
community
(d) support the implementation of the plan. 24
25
Example of supporting the implementation of the plan--
26
The chief executive may provide, or arrange for another entity to
27
provide, a service to the child's family.
`Division 5 Periodically reviewing the case plan 28
`51U Application of div 5 29
`This division applies to a child for whom a case plan has 30
been developed, while-- 31
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(a) a child protection order is in force for the child; or 1
(b) the child otherwise remains a child mentioned in 2
section 51C. 3
`51V Plan must be reviewed 4
`(1) The chief executive must regularly review the case plan. 5
`(2) In deciding when, or how often, to review the plan, the chief 6
executive must have regard to-- 7
(a) the child's age and circumstances; and 8
(b) the nature of the arrangements in place under the plan; 9
and 10
(c) any problems or potential problems with the plan, or 11
ways the plan might be improved, of which the chief 12
executive is aware; and 13
(d) if a child protection order for the child is in force--the 14
duration of the order. 15
`(3) In any case, the review must happen at least every 6 months. 16
`(4) After reviewing the plan, the chief executive must prepare-- 17
(a) a report about the review under section 51X; and 18
(b) a revised case plan. 19
`51W Who may participate 20
`(1) The chief executive must give the following persons a 21
reasonable opportunity to participate in the review and 22
preparation of the revised case plan-- 23
(a) the child, unless it would be inappropriate because of 24
the child's age or ability to understand; 25
(b) the child's parents; 26
(c) other members of the child's family group who the chief 27
executive considers are likely to make a useful 28
contribution; 29
(d) other persons with whom the child has a significant 30
relationship; 31
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1
Example--
2
A foster carer may be someone with whom the child has a
3
significant relationship.
(e) any legal representative of the child; 4
(f) if the child is an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander 5
child--a member of the recognised Aboriginal or Torres 6
Strait Islander agency for the child; 7
(g) a relevant service provider; 8
(h) anyone else who the chief executive considers is likely 9
to make a useful contribution to the review. 10
`(2) To enable the participation, the chief executive may convene a 11
family group meeting or have a private convenor convene a 12
family group meeting. 13
`(3) If a family group meeting or other meeting is convened for the 14
purpose of the review and the child or a parent of the child 15
attends, the convenor must allow the child or parent to have 16
someone attend and participate in the meeting to give help or 17
support to the child or parent. 18
`(4) To remove any doubt, it is declared that a requirement to allow 19
a person to attend or participate in a meeting under this 20
section, or otherwise participate in the review, applies whether 21
or not the child's parents agree to the person's attendance or 22
participation. 23
`(5) The convenor of a meeting under this section is not required to 24
allow a particular person to attend or participate in the 25
meeting, under subsection (1)(b) to (d) or (3), if the convenor 26
is satisfied that person's attendance or participation would be 27
contrary to the purposes of the meeting or not in the child's 28
best interests. 29
`51X Report about the review 30
(1) The report about the review must include the following 31
matters-- 32
(a) the goals in the previous case plan that have been 33
achieved or are yet to be achieved; 34
(b) any changes to the goals in the revised case plan; 35
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(c) any services provided to the child under the previous 1
case plan or the revised case plan; 2
(d) the extent to which the living arrangements and contact 3
arrangements under the previous case plan have been 4
meeting the child's needs; 5
(e) who participated in the review and how they 6
participated, including whether a family group meeting 7
was held and who attended. 8
(2) The report must also address how the revised case plan gives 9
priority to the child's need for long-term stable care. 10
(3) For subsection (2), if the child is placed in the care of 11
someone other than a parent of the child under a child 12
protection order granting custody or short-term guardianship 13
of the child, the report must state-- 14
(a) the risks and benefits of returning the child to the care of 15
a parent; and 16
(b) whether there is a real risk that the child's need for 17
long-term stable care will not be able to be met by 18
returning the child to the care of a parent within a 19
timeframe appropriate to the child's age and 20
circumstances; and 21
(c) if there is a real risk mentioned in paragraph (b), the 22
progress made in planning for alternative long-term 23
arrangements for the child, for example-- 24
(i) arrangements for the child to live with a member of 25
the child's family under a child protection order 26
granting long-term guardianship of the child; or 27
(ii) for a young child--arrangements for the child's 28
adoption under the Adoption of Children Act 1964; 29
or 30
(iii) for an older child--arrangements for the child's 31
transition to independent living. 32
`51Y Distributing and implementing the revised case plan 33
`(1) This section applies after the chief executive has prepared the 34
revised case plan. 35
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`(2) The chief executive must-- 1
(a) give a copy of the plan to the child, unless that would be 2
inappropriate having regard to the child's age and ability 3
to understand; and 4
(b) explain any changes in the plan to the child in a way, and 5
to an extent, that is reasonable, having regard to the 6
child's age and ability to understand; and 7
(c) give a copy to the child's parents and anyone else 8
affected by the plan or who the chief executive considers 9
should receive a copy; and 10
(d) support the implementation of the plan.'. 11
Clause 16 Amendment of s 59 (Making of child protection order) 12
(1) Section 59(1)(b)-- 13
omit, insert-- 14
`(b) there is a case plan for the child-- 15
(i) that has been developed or revised under part 3A; 16
and 17
(ii) that is appropriate for meeting the child's assessed 18
protection and care needs; and'. 19
(2) Section 59(2) to (5)-- 20
renumber as section 59(3) to (6). 21
(3) Section 59-- 22
insert-- 23
`(2) The court must not make a child protection order unless a 24
copy of the child's case plan and, if it is a revised case plan, a 25
copy of the report about the last revision under section 51X 26
have been filed in the court.'. 27
Clause 17 Amendment of s 68 (Court's other powers on 28
adjournment of proceedings for child protection orders) 29
(1) Section 68(1)(b), after `examination'-- 30
insert-- 31
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`or treatment'. 1
(2) Section 68(1)(d)-- 2
omit, insert-- 3
`(d) an order requiring the chief executive-- 4
(i) to convene a family group meeting to develop or 5
revise a case plan and file the plan in the court; or 6
(ii) to convene a family group meeting to consider, 7
make recommendations about, or otherwise deal 8
with, another matter relating to the child's 9
wellbeing and protection and care needs;'. 10
Clause 18 Insertion of new s 83A 11
After section 83-- 12
insert-- 13
`83A Giving information to carers and children 14
`(1) Before placing the child in care under section 82, the chief 15
executive must-- 16
(a) give to the proposed carer the information that the chief 17
executive has about the child that the proposed carer 18
reasonably needs to help him or her make an informed 19
decision whether to agree to the placement; and 20
(b) give the child information the chief executive has about 21
the proposed carer and members of the proposed carer's 22
household that the child reasonably needs to participate 23
meaningfully in the decision about who will be the 24
child's carer; and 25
(c) if possible, give the child an opportunity to meet the 26
proposed carer and members of the proposed carer's 27
household. 28
`(2) When placing the child in care, and while the child is in care, 29
the chief executive must give the carer information that the 30
chief executive has relating to the child that the carer 31
reasonably needs-- 32
(a) to provide care for the child under this Act; and 33
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(b) to ensure the safety of the child, the carer and other 1
members of the carer's household. 2
`(3) If the child is placed in the care of a licensed care service-- 3
(a) a requirement under subsection (1) or (2) to give 4
information to the proposed carer or carer applies to the 5
licensee instead of the chief executive; and 6
(b) the chief executive must give the licensee the 7
information that the chief executive has about the child 8
that the licensee needs to comply with the requirement. 9
`(4) In deciding the information about the child to give to someone 10
under this section, the chief executive must have regard to-- 11
(a) the views and wishes of the child, having regard to the 12
child's age and ability to understand; and 13
(b) the proposed length of time of the placement; and 14
(c) the child's right to privacy under the charter of rights. 15
`(5) Before giving information about the child to someone under 16
this section, the chief executive must tell the child what 17
information is being given and why it is being given. 18
`(6) In this section-- 19
carer, in relation to a child, means-- 20
(a) if the child is placed in the care of a licensed care 21
service--the individual who directly provides care to 22
the child; or 23
(b) otherwise--the approved foster carer or other individual 24
in whose care the child is placed.'. 25
Clause 19 Amendment of s 84 (Agreements to provide care for 26
children) 27
Section 84, after subsection (1)-- 28
insert-- 29
30
`Note--
31
Provisions of the agreement may be included in the child's case plan.'.
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Clause 20 Omission of s 88 (Chief executive to regularly review 1
arrangements for child's protection) 2
Section 88-- 3
omit. 4
Clause 21 Amendment of s 95 (Report about person's criminal 5
history etc.) 6
(1) Section 95(1), `This section'-- 7
omit, insert-- 8
`Subsection (2)'. 9
(2) Section 95-- 10
insert-- 11
`(2A) Also, if an authorised officer is investigating an allegation of 12
harm or risk of harm to a child or assessing a child's need of 13
protection under section 14, the chief executive may-- 14
(a) ask the commissioner of the police service to give the 15
chief executive a written report about the criminal 16
history and domestic violence history of-- 17
(i) a parent of the child; or 18
(ii) an adult member of a parent's household; or 19
(iii) an adult against whom the allegation of harm or 20
risk of harm has been made; and 21
(b) ask the chief executive for transport to give the chief 22
executive a written report about the traffic history of a 23
parent of the child.'. 24
(3) Section 95(3), `the request'-- 25
omit, insert-- 26
`a request under subsection (2) or (3)'. 27
(4) Section 95(4), `Subsection (2)(a) applies'-- 28
omit, insert-- 29
`Subsections (2)(a) and (3)(a) apply'. 30
(5) Section 95(5), `Subsection (3)'-- 31
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omit, insert-- 1
`Subsection (4)'. 2
(6) Section 95(6), `Subsection (7)'-- 3
omit, insert-- 4
`Subsection (8)'. 5
(7) Section 95(6), after `(2)'-- 6
insert-- 7
`or (3)'. 8
(8) Section 95(2A) to (7)-- 9
renumber as section 95(3) to (8). 10
Clause 22 Omission of s 96 (Family meetings) 11
Section 96-- 12
omit. 13
Clause 23 Omission of s 158 (Coordination) 14
Section 158-- 15
omit. 16
Clause 24 Insertion of new ch 5A 17
After chapter 5-- 18
insert-- 19
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`Chapter 5A Service Delivery 1
Co-ordination and 2
Information Exchange 3
`Part 1 Preliminary 4
`159A Purpose 5
`The purpose of this chapter is to provide for service providers 6
to appropriately and effectively meet the protection and care 7
needs of children by-- 8
(a) co-ordinating the delivery of services to children and 9
families; and 10
(b) exchanging relevant information, while protecting the 11
confidentiality of the information. 12
`159B Principles for co-ordinating service delivery and 13
exchanging information 14
`The principles underlying this chapter are as follows-- 15
(a) the State is responsible for ensuring that children in 16
need of protection receive protection and care services 17
that ensure their safety and promote their wellbeing; 18
(b) the chief executive has the primary responsibility for 19
investigating, assessing and responding to allegations of 20
harm to children, including by making plans for their 21
protection and care; 22
(c) each service provider should contribute, within the 23
provider's own sphere of responsibility, to assessing and 24
meeting the protection and care needs of children and 25
supporting their families; 26
(d) children in need of protection and their families should 27
receive co-ordinated services that meet their needs in a 28
timely and effective way; 29
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(e) service providers should work collaboratively and in a 1
way that respects the functions and expertise of other 2
service providers; 3
(f) because a child's welfare and best interests are 4
paramount,6 their protection and care needs take 5
precedence over the protection of an individual's 6
privacy. 7
`159C What is relevant information 8
`(1) In this chapter-- 9
relevant information means-- 10
(a) in relation to giving information to the chief executive or 11
an authorised officer--information that the holder of the 12
information reasonably believes may-- 13
(i) help an authorised officer to investigate an 14
allegation of harm or risk of harm to a child or 15
assess a child's need for protection; or 16
(ii) help the chief executive to take action under 17
section 14; or 18
(iii) help an authorised officer to investigate or assess, 19
before the birth of a child, the likelihood that the 20
child will need protection after he or she is born; or 21
(iv) help the chief executive in offering help and 22
support to a pregnant woman under section 21A; or 23
(v) help the chief executive to develop, or assess the 24
effectiveness of, a child's case plan; or 25
(vi) help the chief executive to assess or respond to the 26
health, educational or care needs of a child in need 27
of protection; or 28
(vii) otherwise help the chief executive to make plans or 29
decisions relating to, or provide services to, a child 30
in need of protection or the child's family; or 31
6 See section 5(1) (Principles for administration of Act).
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(b) in relation to giving information to another service 1
provider--information that the holder of the information 2
reasonably believes may help the service provider to-- 3
(i) decide whether information about suspected harm 4
or risk of harm to a child should be given to the 5
chief executive; or 6
(ii) assess or respond to the health, educational or care 7
needs of a child in need of protection; or 8
(iii) otherwise make plans or decisions relating to, or 9
provide services to, a child in need of protection or 10
the child's family. 11
`(2) Relevant information may be information about a child in 12
need of protection, the child's family or someone else. 13
`(3) Relevant information may be comprised of facts or opinion. 14
`(4) Relevant information does not include information about a 15
person's criminal history to the extent it relates to a 16
conviction-- 17
(a) for which the rehabilitation period under the Criminal 18
Law (Rehabilitation of Offenders) Act 1986 has expired 19
under that Act; and 20
(b) that is not revived as prescribed by section 117 of that 21
Act. 22
`159D Other definitions for ch 5A 23
`In this chapter-- 24
prescribed entity means each of the following entities-- 25
(a) the chief executive; 26
(b) an authorised officer; 27
(c) a licensee; 28
(d) the chief executive of a department that is mainly 29
responsible for any of the following matters-- 30
7 Criminal Law (Rehabilitation of Offenders) Act 1986, section 11 (Revival of
convictions)
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(i) adult corrective services; 1
(ii) community services; 2
(iii) disability services; 3
(iv) education; 4
(v) housing services; 5
(vi) public health; 6
(e) the commissioner of the Queensland Police Service; 7
(f) the principal of a school that is accredited, or 8
provisionally accredited, under the Education 9
(Accreditation of Non-State Schools) Act 2001; 10
(g) the person in charge of a student hostel; 11
(h) the chief executive of another entity, that provides a 12
service to children or families, prescribed under a 13
regulation. 14
service provider means-- 15
(a) a prescribed entity; or 16
(b) another person providing a service to children or 17
families. 18
student hostel means-- 19
(a) a student hostel conducted under the Education 20
(General Provisions) Act 1989, section 18(1)(b); or 21
(b) a hostel conducted with a grant, allowance or subsidy 22
provided under the Education (General Provisions) Act 23
1989, section 142. 24
`159E Reference to family services 25
`A reference in this part to providing a service to families 26
includes providing a service to pregnant women. 27
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`Part 2 Service delivery co-ordination 1
`159F Service providers' responsibilities 2
`Service providers must take reasonable steps to co-ordinate 3
decision-making and the delivery of services to children and 4
families, in order to appropriately and effectively meet the 5
protection and care needs of children. 6
`159G Chief executive's responsibilities 7
`(1) The chief executive is responsible for-- 8
(a) ensuring ways exist to co-ordinate the roles and 9
responsibilities of service providers in promoting the 10
protection of children and child protection services; and 11
(b) establishing ways to co-ordinate the roles and 12
responsibilities of service providers relating to-- 13
(i) investigating and assessing particular cases of 14
harm to children; and 15
(ii) taking action to secure the protection of children 16
and promote their welfare. 17
`(2) One of the ways in which the chief executive is to fulfil the 18
responsibility under subsection (1)(b) is by establishing and 19
participating in the SCAN system under part 3. 20
`159H Chief executive may ask particular prescribed entities 21
to provide a service 22
`(1) This section applies only to the following prescribed 23
entities-- 24
(a) a licensee; 25
(b) the chief executive of a department that is mainly 26
responsible for any of the following matters-- 27
(i) adult corrective services; 28
(ii) community services; 29
(iii) disability services; 30
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(iv) education; 1
(v) housing services; 2
(vi) public health; 3
(c) the commissioner of the Queensland Police Service. 4
`(2) The chief executive may ask a prescribed entity to provide a 5
service-- 6
(a) to a child in need of protection, or a member of the 7
child's family, to help meet the child's protection and 8
care needs and promote the child's wellbeing; or 9
(b) to an individual, before the birth of a child, to help meet 10
the child's protection and care needs and promote the 11
child's wellbeing after the child is born. 12
`(3) The prescribed entity must take reasonable steps to comply 13
with the request so far as the request-- 14
(a) is consistent with the entity's functions; and 15
(b) does not unreasonably affect the discharge of the 16
entity's functions in relation to other persons or matters. 17
`(4) The chief executive must give the prescribed entity the 18
information it needs to comply with the request. 19
`Part 3 The SCAN system 20
`159I Establishment of system 21
`The chief executive must establish a SCAN system under this 22
part. 23
24
Note--
25
SCAN stands for `Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect'.
`159J Purpose 26
`(1) The purpose of the SCAN system is to enable a co-ordinated 27
response to the protection needs of children. 28
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`(2) The purpose is to be achieved by facilitating-- 1
(a) the sharing of relevant information between members of 2
the system; and 3
(b) the planning and co-ordinating of actions to assess and 4
respond to children's protection needs; and 5
(c) a holistic and culturally responsive assessment of 6
children's protection needs. 7
`159K Members 8
`The members of the SCAN system are-- 9
(a) the chief executives of the following entities (the core 10
members)-- 11
(a) the department; 12
(b) the department mainly responsible for public 13
health; 14
(c) the department mainly responsible for education; 15
(d) the Queensland Police Service; 16
(e) in relation to the protection needs of an Aboriginal 17
or Torres Strait Islander child--the recognised 18
Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander agency for the 19
child; and 20
(b) from time to time, other service providers contributing 21
to the operation of the system by invitation of the core 22
members. 23
`159L Responsibilities of the core members 24
`The responsibilities of the core members are as follows-- 25
(a) to contribute to the operation of the SCAN system 26
through representatives who have appropriate 27
knowledge and experience in child protection; 28
(b) to use their best endeavours to agree on 29
recommendations to give to the chief executive about 30
assessing and responding to the protection needs of 31
particular children and, for that purpose, to-- 32
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(i) share relevant information about the children, their 1
families and other relevant persons; and 2
(ii) identify relevant resources of members or other 3
entities; 4
(c) to take the action required under the recommendations; 5
(d) to monitor the implementation of the recommendations 6
and review their effectiveness; 7
(e) to invite and facilitate contributions from other service 8
providers with knowledge, experience or resources that 9
would help achieve the purpose of the SCAN system. 10
`Part 4 Information exchange 11
`159M Particular prescribed entities giving and receiving 12
relevant information 13
`(1) This section applies to the following prescribed entities-- 14
(a) the chief executive; 15
(b) an authorised officer; 16
(c) the chief executive of a department that is mainly 17
responsible for any of the following matters-- 18
(i) adult corrective services; 19
(ii) community services; 20
(iii) disability services; 21
(iv) education; 22
(v) housing services; 23
(vi) public health; 24
(d) the commissioner of the Queensland Police Service. 25
`(2) A prescribed entity mentioned in subsection (1) may give 26
relevant information to any other service provider. 27
`(3) A service provider may give relevant information to a 28
prescribed entity mentioned in subsection (1). 29
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`159N Information requirement made by chief executive or 1
authorised officer 2
`(1) If the chief executive or an authorised officer asks a prescribed 3
entity for particular relevant information in the entity's 4
possession or control, the entity must comply with the request. 5
`(2) For subsection (1), information is not taken to be in the 6
prescribed entity's control merely because of an agreement 7
between the prescribed entity and another entity under which 8
the other entity must give the information to the prescribed 9
entity. 10
`(3) Subsection (1) does not apply to relevant information if the 11
prescribed entity reasonably considers that-- 12
(a) giving the information could reasonably be expected 13
to-- 14
(i) prejudice the investigation of a contravention or 15
possible contravention of a law in a particular case; 16
or 17
(ii) prejudice an investigation under the Coroners Act 18
2003; or 19
(iii) enable the existence or identity of a confidential 20
source of information, in relation to the 21
enforcement or administration of a law, to be 22
ascertained; or 23
(iv) endanger a person's life or physical safety; or 24
(v) prejudice the effectiveness of a lawful method or 25
procedure for preventing, detecting, investigating 26
or dealing with a contravention or possible 27
contravention of a law; and 28
(b) it would not be in the public interest to give the 29
information. 30
`(4) A person does not commit an offence merely by failing to 31
comply with subsection (1). 32
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`Part 5 Release of health information 1
or information relevant to 2
coronial investigation 3
`159O Release of information by health service employees 4
`(1) A health service employee may, for this Act, give a relevant 5
person or the Childrens Court confidential information if-- 6
(a) for a relevant person or the Childrens Court--the 7
information is relevant to the protection or welfare of a 8
child; or 9
(b) for a relevant person who is the chief executive and 10
without limiting paragraph (a)--the information is 11
relevant to the chief executive's review, or the 12
preparation of a supplementary report, under 13
chapter 7A.8 14
`(2) Subsection (1)(a) includes the giving of information, before a 15
child is born, that is relevant to the protection or welfare of the 16
child after he or she is born. 17
`(3) This section does not limit a power or obligation under this 18
chapter to give relevant information. 19
`(4) In this section-- 20
confidential information means information mentioned in the 21
Health Services Act 1991, section 63(1). 22
health service employee means an officer, employee or agent 23
of the department in which the Health Services Act 1991 is 24
administered. 25
relevant person means-- 26
(a) the chief executive; or 27
(b) an authorised officer; or 28
(c) a police officer. 29
8 Chapter 7A (Child deaths)
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`159P Release of information for an investigation under the 1
Coroners Act 2
`(1) This section applies if a coroner is investigating the death of a 3
child. 4
`(2) The chief executive may give to the coroner, or to a police 5
officer helping the coroner to investigate the death, 6
information about any of the following matters-- 7
(a) whether, before the death, the child or a sibling of the 8
child was a child in care; 9
(b) whether the chief executive became aware, before the 10
death happened, of alleged harm or alleged risk of harm 11
to the child or a sibling of the child and, if so-- 12
(i) the identity of a notifier; and 13
(ii) other information about how or when the chief 14
executive became aware; 15
(c) action taken by the chief executive, before the child's 16
death, relating to the child or a sibling of the child. 17
`(3) The coroner or police officer to whom the information is 18
given and anyone else to whom the information is 19
subsequently given under this subsection-- 20
(a) must not use or disclose the information other than-- 21
(i) for a purpose of the investigation; or 22
23
Example--
24
The coroner orders a doctor to perform an autopsy as part
25
of the investigation of the child's death and, for that
26
purpose, gives the information to the doctor. The doctor
27
may include the information in the doctor's autopsy report
28
under the Coroners Act 2003, section 25.
(ii) as otherwise required or permitted under this or 29
another Act; and 30
(b) if the information includes the identity of a notifier, 31
must not disclose the identity to anyone unless-- 32
(i) for a disclosure by the coroner--the coroner is 33
satisfied that disclosure of the identity is of critical 34
importance for the investigation; or 35
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(ii) for disclosure by anyone else--the coroner 1
approves the disclosure on the basis mentioned in 2
subparagraph (i). 3
`(4) In this section-- 4
child in care means a child mentioned in the Coroners Act 5
2003, section 9(1)(d) or (e).9 6
notifier means a notifier under section 186 or the Health Act 7
1937, section 76KH. 8
sibling includes a half-sibling and a stepsibling. 9
`Part 6 Protection from liability and 10
interaction with other laws 11
`159Q Protection from liability for giving information 12
`(1) This section applies if a person, acting honestly, gives 13
information in compliance with this chapter. 14
`(2) The person is not liable, civilly, criminally or under an 15
administrative process, for giving the information. 16
`(3) Also, merely because the person gives the information, the 17
person can not be held to have-- 18
(a) breached any code of professional etiquette or ethics; or 19
(b) departed from accepted standards of professional 20
conduct. 21
`(4) Without limiting subsections (2) and (3)-- 22
(a) in a proceeding for defamation, the person has a defence 23
of absolute privilege for publishing the information; and 24
9 Coroners Act 2003, section 9(1)(d) and (e)--
(d) the person was a child placed in the care of a licensed care service, approved
foster carer, or other person under the Child Protection Act 1999, section 82;
or
(e) the person was a child in a placement with the consent of a parent or guardian.
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(b) if the person would otherwise be required to maintain 1
confidentiality about the information under an Act, oath 2
or rule of law or practice, the person-- 3
(i) does not contravene the Act, oath or rule of law or 4
practice by giving the information; and 5
(ii) is not liable to disciplinary action for giving the 6
information. 7
`159R Interaction with other laws 8
`(1) This chapter does not limit a power or obligation under 9
another Act or law to give relevant information. 10
`(2) This part applies to information despite any other law that 11
would otherwise prohibit or restrict the giving of the 12
information. 13
14
Examples of other laws--
15
· Education (General Provisions) Act 1989, section 25
16
· Health Services Act 1991, section 63
17
· Police Service Administration Act 1990, section 10.1'.
Clause 25 Amendment of s 172 (Issue of warrant) 18
Section 172(1)-- 19
insert-- 20
`(c) the child has been lawfully removed from a person's 21
custody or guardianship under this Act but kept beyond 22
the period allowed for the removal.'. 23
Clause 26 Amendment of s 182 (Evidentiary provisions) 24
Section 182(4)(g), `family meeting'-- 25
omit, insert-- 26
`family group meeting'. 27
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Clause 27 Replacement of s 187 (Confidentiality of information 1
obtained by persons involved in administration of Act) 2
Section 187-- 3
omit, insert-- 4
`187 Confidentiality of information obtained by persons 5
involved in administration of Act 6
`(1) This section applies to a person who-- 7
(a) is or has been-- 8
(i) a public service employee, a person engaged by the 9
chief executive, or a police officer, performing 10
functions under or in relation to the administration 11
of this Act; or 12
(ii) a licensee or the executive officer of a corporation 13
that is a licensee; or 14
(iii) a person employed or engaged by a licensee to 15
perform functions under or in relation to the 16
administration of this Act; or 17
(iv) an approved foster carer or other carer in whose 18
care a child has been placed under this Act; or 19
(v) a member of, or person employed or engaged by, a 20
recognised Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander 21
agency; or 22
(vi) a person attending a case planning meeting or 23
participating in another way in the development of 24
a child's case plan; or 25
(vii) a person participating in the revision of a child's 26
case plan; or 27
(viii) a member of the SCAN system, or a representative 28
of a member, performing functions under or in 29
relation to chapter 5A, part 3; or 30
(ix) a prescribed entity, or person engaged by a 31
prescribed entity, performing functions under or in 32
relation to chapter 5A, part 4; and 33
(b) in that capacity acquired information about another 34
person's affairs or has access to, or custody of, a 35
document about another person's affairs. 36
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`(2) The person must not use or disclose the information, or give 1
access to the document, to anyone else. 2
Maximum penalty--100 penalty units or 2 years 3
imprisonment. 4
`(3) However, the person may, subject to section 186, use or 5
disclose the information or give access to the document to 6
someone else-- 7
(a) to the extent necessary to perform the person's functions 8
under or in relation to this Act; or 9
(b) if the use, disclosure or giving of access is for purposes 10
directly related to a child's protection or welfare; or 11
12
Example--
13
An approved foster carer in whose care a child has been placed
14
under this Act may disclose relevant information about the child
15
to a person, including, for example, a school teacher or member
16
of the carer's immediate family, to help the person understand
17
and meet the child's needs.
(c) if the use, disclosure or giving of access-- 18
(i) relates to the chief executive's function of 19
cooperating with government entities that have a 20
function relating to the protection of children or 21
that provide services to children in need of 22
protection or their families; or 23
(ii) is otherwise required or permitted by law. 24
`(4) Also, a person may disclose the information or give access to 25
the document to another person to the extent that the 26
information or document is about the other person. 27
`(5) Also, a police officer may use or disclose the information or 28
give access to the document to someone else under 29
section 188A. 30
`(6) To remove any doubt, it is declared that a person participating 31
in the development, implementation or revision of a child's 32
case plan under this Act is performing a function under this 33
Act.'. 34
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Clause 28 Amendment of s 188 (Confidentiality of information given 1
by persons involved in administration of Act to other 2
persons) 3
(1) Section 188(1), before `police'-- 4
insert-- 5
`another prescribed entity, a'. 6
(2) Section 188(1), `duties'-- 7
omit, insert-- 8
`functions'. 9
(3) Section 188(2) and (3), `disclose'-- 10
omit, insert-- 11
`use or disclose'. 12
(4) Section 188(3)(a) and (b), `disclosure'-- 13
omit, insert-- 14
`use, disclosure or giving of access'. 15
(5) Section 188(3)(c), `disclosure'-- 16
omit, insert-- 17
`use, disclosure'. 18
Clause 29 Insertion of new s 188A 19
After section 188-- 20
insert-- 21
`188A Police use of confidential information 22
`(1) This section applies if a police officer acquires information as 23
provided for in section 187(1). 24
`(2) The officer, and any other police officer to whom the 25
information is disclosed under this section, may use the 26
information to the extent necessary to perform his or her 27
functions as a police officer. 28
`(3) A police officer must not use the information under this 29
section for an investigation or for a proceeding for an offence 30
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unless the officer, or another police officer, has consulted with 1
the following entities about the proposed use-- 2
(a) the chief executive; 3
(b) if the information was acquired under chapter 5A, 4
part 3, from a member of the SCAN system--the 5
member; 6
(c) if the information was acquired from a prescribed entity 7
under chapter 5A, part 4--the prescribed entity. 8
`(4) The purpose of a consultation under subsection (3) is to 9
consider whether the proposed use of the information for the 10
investigation or proceeding would be in the best interests of 11
any child. 12
`(5) Subsection (3) does not apply-- 13
(a) if the information concerns an offence committed 14
against a child; or 15
(b) to the extent that the police officer needs to use the 16
information immediately to perform the officer's 17
functions as a police officer. 18
`(6) This section applies subject to section 186. 19
`(7) In this section-- 20
information includes a document. 21
use-- 22
(a) in relation to information, includes disclose; and 23
(b) in relation to a document, includes give access to. 24
25
Note--
26
Section 248B also requires a police officer to consult with the chief
27
executive about particular investigations and proceedings.'.
Clause 30 Omission of ch 6 (Enforcement and legal proceedings), 28
pt 6 (Confidentiality), div 4 (General) 29
Chapter 6, part 6, division 4-- 30
omit. 31
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Clause 31 Amendment of s 197 (Protection from liability) 1
Section 197(3), definition official-- 2
insert-- 3
`(d) a member of the SCAN system or a representative of a 4
member.'. 5
Clause 32 Amendment of s 214 (Court may transfer order) 6
(1) Section 214-- 7
insert-- 8
`(ba) an appropriate case plan has been prepared under 9
chapter 2, part 3A; and'. 10
(2) Section 214(c), `family meeting'-- 11
omit, insert-- 12
`family group meeting'. 13
Clause 33 Insertion of new s 248B 14
After section 248A-- 15
insert-- 16
`248B Consultation about investigations and prosecutions 17
`(1) This section applies to an offence committed against a child 18
who a police officer knows or suspects is a child in need of 19
protection. 20
`(2) When investigating the offence, the officer must consult with 21
the chief executive for the purpose of planning the most 22
appropriate way of conducting the investigation. 23
`(3) Before starting a proceeding for the offence, the officer must 24
consult with the chief executive for the purpose of considering 25
whether the proceeding would be in the best interests of the 26
child. 27
`(4) Subsections (2) and (3) do not apply to the officer-- 28
(a) to the extent that the consultation would be 29
impracticable in all the circumstances, including any 30
need to take urgent action; or 31
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(b) if the officer is aware the consultation has already been 1
carried out by another police officer.'. 2
Clause 34 Amendment of s 249 (Regulation-making powers) 3
(1) Section 249(2)(d), `family meetings'-- 4
omit, insert-- 5
`family group meetings'. 6
(2) Section 249(2)-- 7
insert-- 8
`(e) the SCAN system.'. 9
Clause 35 Insertion of new ch 9, pt 4 10
Chapter 9, after part 3-- 11
insert-- 12
`Part 4 Transitional provision for Child 13
Safety Legislation Amendment 14
Act (No. 2) 2004 15
`262 Transitional--case planning 16
`(1) If, on the commencement day, a child is a child mentioned in 17
section 51C and has a case plan that was prepared before the 18
commencement day, the plan is taken to have been developed 19
under chapter 2, part 3A. 20
`(2) A family meeting held under the Act before the 21
commencement day is taken to be a family group meeting. 22
`(3) In this section-- 23
commencement day means the day chapter 2, part 3A, 24
commences.'. 25
Clause 36 Amendment of sch 3 (Dictionary) 26
(1) Schedule 3, definitions family meeting and government 27
entity-- 28
omit. 29
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(2) Schedule 3-- 1
insert-- 2
`case plan see section 51B. 3
case planning see section 51A. 4
case planning meeting see section 51H(2). 5
charter of rights means the charter of rights for a child in care 6
in schedule 1. 7
contact arrangements, for a child, means arrangements for 8
the child's contact with members of the child's family group 9
or other persons with whom the child is connected. 10
endorse, a case plan, means record an endorsement on the 11
plan. 12
family group, for chapter 2, part 3A, see section 51E. 13
family group meeting means a family group meeting under 14
chapter 2, part 3A. 15
government entity means a government entity under the 16
Public Service Act 1996, section 21, and includes the 17
Queensland Police Service to the extent it is not a government 18
entity under that section. 19
living arrangements, for a child, means arrangements about 20
where or with whom the child will live. 21
prescribed entity, for chapter 5A, see section 159D. 22
private convenor see section 51I(1). 23
relevant information, for chapter 5A, see section 159C. 24
revised case plan means a case plan prepared under chapter 2, 25
part 3A, division 5. 26
SCAN stands for `Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect'. 27
service provider see section 159D. 28
student hostel, for chapter 5A, see section 159D.'. 29
(3) Schedule 3, definition parent-- 30
insert-- 31
`(ba) chapter 2, part 3A, see section 51F;'. 32
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Part 5 Amendment of Commission for 1
Children and Young People and 2
Child Guardian Act 2000 3
Clause 37 Act amended in pt 5 4
This part amends the Commission for Children and Young 5
People and Child Guardian Act 2000. 6
Clause 38 Amendment of s 7A (Scope of Act relating to children in 7
the child safety system) 8
Section 7A, example 1-- 9
omit, insert-- 10
`1 Under section 15AA(1)(b), the commissioner may review the child 11
12
safety department's handling of a case of a particular child in the
13
child safety system even though the child is no longer in the child
14
safety system at the time of the review.'.
Clause 39 Amendment of s 15 (Commissioner's functions) 15
(1) Section 15(1)(c), including the note-- 16
omit, insert-- 17
`(c) the commissioner's monitoring functions under 18
section 15AA;'. 19
(2) Section 15(1)(f)-- 20
omit. 21
(3) Section 15(2)(b)-- 22
renumber as section 15(2)(c). 23
(4) Section 15(2)(a)-- 24
omit, insert-- 25
`(a) the monitoring functions under section 15AA; and 26
(b) the functions under subsection (1)(d) and (e); and'. 27
(5) Section 15(3)-- 28
omit. 29
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Clause 40 Insertion of new s 15AA 1
After section 15-- 2
insert-- 3
`15AA Monitoring functions 4
`(1) The commissioner has the following functions (the 5
monitoring functions)-- 6
(a) to monitor, audit and review the systems, policies and 7
practices of the child safety department and other 8
service providers that affect children in the child safety 9
system; 10
(b) to monitor, audit and review the handling of individual 11
cases of children in the child safety system by the child 12
safety department and licensees under the Child 13
Protection Act 1999; 14
(c) to monitor compliance by the chief executive (child 15
safety) with the Child Protection Act 1999, section 83.10 16
17
Note--
18
Part 2A includes powers of the commissioner that may be exercised to
19
perform the monitoring functions, but only in relation to the service
20
providers specified in section 31B.
`(2) To perform the monitoring functions, the commissioner may 21
need to access, under part 2A, information or documents 22
relating to individual cases. 23
`(3) The systems, policies and practices mentioned in 24
subsection (1)(a) include systems, policies and practices for 25
case handling. 26
`(4) However, to remove any doubt, it is declared that the 27
monitoring functions under subsection (1)(a) do not include 28
reviewing a decision taken in an individual case. 29
`(5) Also, subsection (1)(a) does not apply to-- 30
(a) the systems, policies and practices of the Director of 31
Public Prosecutions or the police service that directly 32
10 Child Protection Act 1999, section 83 (Additional provisions for placing Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander children in care)
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relate to decisions about whether or not to institute, or 1
continue with, a proceeding for an offence; or 2
(b) the systems, policies and practices of the police service 3
that directly relate to decisions about whether or not to 4
apply for a protection order under the Domestic and 5
Family Violence Protection Act 1989; or 6
(c) the systems, policies and practices of Legal Aid 7
Queensland that directly relate to the content of legal 8
advice given by Legal Aid lawyers.'. 9
Clause 41 Amendment of s 18 (Way in which commissioner is to 10
perform commissioner's functions) 11
Section 18(2)-- 12
insert-- 13
`(e) have sufficient regard to the sensitive nature of personal 14
information, and access it only to the extent necessary to 15
perform the functions.'. 16
Clause 42 Amendment of s 31B (Service providers to which this 17
part applies) 18
Section 31B-- 19
insert-- 20
`(c) a department that is mainly responsible for any of the 21
following matters-- 22
(i) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander policy; 23
(ii) administration of justice; 24
(iii) adult corrective services; 25
(iv) community services; 26
(v) disability services; 27
(vi) education; 28
(vii) housing services; 29
(viii) public health; 30
(d) the Director of Public Prosecutions; 31
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(e) Legal Aid Queensland; 1
(f) the Public Trust Office; 2
(g) the police service.'. 3
Clause 43 Amendment of s 31C (Power to require information or 4
documents) 5
(1) Section 31C(4) to (6)-- 6
omit. 7
(2) Section 31C-- 8
insert-- 9
`(4) For subsection (1)(b)-- 10
(a) a document is taken to be in the service provider's 11
control if, under an agreement between the service 12
provider and another entity, the other entity must give 13
the document to the service provider for the purpose of 14
the commissioner performing the commissioner's 15
monitoring functions; but 16
(b) otherwise, a document is not taken to be in the service 17
provider's control merely because of an agreement 18
between the service provider and another entity under 19
which the other entity must give the document to the 20
service provider.'. 21
Clause 44 Amendment of s 31D (Access to documents of the child 22
safety department) 23
(1) Section 31D, heading, before `documents'-- 24
insert-- 25
`information and'. 26
(2) Section 31D(2), `under section 31C(4)'-- 27
omit. 28
(3) Section 31D(2)-- 29
renumber as section 31D(3). 30
(4) Section 31D-- 31
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insert-- 1
`(2) The notice must state the way in which the information or 2
documents must be given. 3
4
Examples of stated ways--
5
1 sending the commissioner an electronic copy of a document
6
2 allowing the commissioner to enter the department's premises and
7
access information or documents'.
(5) Section 31D-- 8
insert-- 9
`(4) The department must comply with the notice.'. 10
Clause 45 Insertion of new ss 31DA and DB 11
After section 31D-- 12
insert-- 13
`31DA Access to information and documents of a relevant 14
service provider other than the child safety 15
department 16
`(1) This section applies to a notice under section 31C given to a 17
relevant service provider other than the child safety 18
department. 19
`(2) The notice must state the way in which the commissioner 20
seeks to have the information or documents given. 21
22
Examples of stated ways--
23
1 sending the commissioner an electronic copy of a document
24
2 allowing the commissioner to enter the service provider's premises
25
and access information or documents
`(3) The service provider is not required to give the information or 26
documents in the stated way. 27
`(4) For a requirement to give a document, the service provider 28
may comply with the requirement by giving the information 29
contained in the document. 30
`(5) The service provider is not required to give information or a 31
document to which section 31DB applies. 32
`(6) Otherwise, the service provider must comply with the notice. 33
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Child Safety Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2004
1
Example--
2
The commissioner gives a notice to a licensee seeking particular
3
documents by allowing the commissioner entry to the licensee's
4
premises. The licensee does not have to allow the entry. But if the
5
licensee does not allow the entry, the licensee must comply with the
6
requirement, by the stated time, by giving the information contained in
7
the documents or giving the documents in another way.
`(7) The notice must state the matters mentioned in subsections (3) 8
to (5). 9
`31DB Exempt information and documents 10
`(1) This section applies to a relevant service provider other than 11
the child safety department. 12
`(2) In response to a notice under section 31C, the service provider 13
is not required to give the commissioner information or a 14
document that is exempt under this section. 15
`(3) Information or a document is exempt if giving it could 16
reasonably be expected to-- 17
(a) prejudice the investigation of a contravention or possible 18
contravention of the law in a particular case; or 19
(b) prejudice an investigation under the Coroners Act 2003; 20
or 21
(c) enable the existence or identity of a confidential source 22
of information, in relation to the enforcement or 23
administration of the law, to be ascertained; or 24
(d) endanger a person's life or physical safety; or 25
(e) prejudice the effectiveness of a lawful method or 26
procedure for preventing, detecting, investigating or 27
dealing with a contravention or possible contravention 28
of the law. 29
`(4) Subsection (3) does not apply if giving the information or 30
document would, on balance, be in the public interest. 31
`(5) Also, information or a document is exempt if-- 32
(a) it relates to a review of a matter, being conducted within 33
the entity that is the relevant service provider, that has 34
not been completed; and 35
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Child Safety Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2004
(b) giving the information or document is likely to prejudice 1
or interfere with the review. 2
`(6) For subsection (5)(a), a review is taken not to be completed 3
until the end of any period allowed for an appeal from the 4
review and the end of any appeal. 5
`(7) Also, for Legal Aid Queensland, information or a document is 6
exempt to the extent it contains communications mentioned in 7
the Legal Aid Queensland Act 1997, section 75.11 8
`(8) In this section-- 9
review includes investigation.'. 10
Clause 46 Insertion of new ss 31EA--31EC 11
After section 31E-- 12
insert-- 13
`31EA Protection from liability for giving information 14
`(1) This section applies to the giving of information to the 15
commissioner, by a relevant service provider, for the purpose 16
of the commissioner performing the commissioner's 17
monitoring functions. 18
`(2) A person may give the information despite any other law that 19
would otherwise prohibit or restrict the giving of the 20
information. 21
22
Examples of other laws--
23
· Education (General Provisions) Act 1989, section 25
24
· Health Services Act 1991, section 63
25
· Police Service Administration Act 1990, section 10.1
`(3) If a person, acting honestly, gives the information to the 26
commissioner, the person is not liable, civilly, criminally or 27
under an administrative process, for giving the information. 28
`(4) Also, merely because the person gives the information, the 29
person can not be held to have-- 30
11 Legal Aid Queensland Act 1997, section 75 (Application of legal professional
privilege to Legal Aid and Legal Aid lawyers)
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Child Safety Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2004
(a) breached any code of professional etiquette or ethics; or 1
(b) departed from accepted standards of professional 2
conduct. 3
`(5) Without limiting subsections (3) and (4)-- 4
(a) in a proceeding for defamation, the person has a defence 5
of absolute privilege for publishing the information; and 6
(b) if the person would otherwise be required to maintain 7
confidentiality about the information under an Act, oath 8
or rule of law or practice, the person-- 9
(i) does not contravene the Act, oath or rule of law or 10
practice by giving the information; and 11
(ii) is not liable to disciplinary action for giving the 12
information. 13
`(6) This section does not apply to a person giving information in 14
contravention of the Legal Aid Queensland Act 1997, 15
section 75.12 16
`(7) In this section-- 17
information includes a document. 18
`31EB Restricted use of confidential information accessed 19
under this part 20
`(1) This section applies to information, given to the commissioner 21
for the purpose of the commissioner performing the 22
commissioner's monitoring functions, to the extent the 23
information comprises confidential information. 24
`(2) The commissioner may only use or disclose the information-- 25
(a) to perform the commissioner's monitoring functions; or 26
(b) to refer a matter under section 20; or 27
(c) to undertake an investigation under part 3; or 28
(d) if authorised under another Act or required by law; or 29
12 Legal Aid Queensland Act 1997, section 75 (Application of legal professional
privilege to Legal Aid and Legal Aid lawyers)
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(e) with the written consent of the person to whom the 1
information relates or, if the person is a child unable to 2
consent, with the written consent of a parent or guardian 3
of the child. 4
`(3) In this section-- 5
information includes a document. 6
`31EC Commissioner to advise on-disclosure 7
`(1) This section applies to information or a document that the 8
commissioner has obtained from a relevant service provider 9
for the purpose of performing the commissioner's monitoring 10
functions. 11
`(2) The commissioner must advise the service provider before 12
giving the information or document to another entity, unless 13
the commissioner considers that doing so would not be in the 14
best interests of a child to whom the information or document 15
relates.'. 16
Clause 47 Amendment of s 31G (Review of service) 17
(1) Section 31G(1)(a)(i) and (ii)-- 18
omit, insert-- 19
`(i) a relevant service provider's systems, policies or 20
practices affecting children in the child safety 21
system; or 22
(ii) the handling of individual cases of children in the 23
child safety system by the child safety department 24
or a licensee; and'. 25
(2) Section 31G(2)(a)-- 26
omit, insert-- 27
`(a) undertake a review of-- 28
(i) if subsection (1)(a)(i) applies--the systems, 29
policies or practices; or 30
(ii) if subsection (1)(a)(ii) applies--the handling of the 31
individual cases; and'. 32
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Child Safety Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2004
Clause 48 Amendment of s 31H (Recommendations) 1
Section 31H-- 2
insert-- 3
`(2) Before making the recommendations, the commissioner must 4
give the service provider a written copy of the proposed 5
recommendations and a reasonable opportunity to comment 6
on them. 7
`(3) The commissioner must give a copy of the recommendations 8
to the Minister responsible for the service provider. 9
`(4) The Minister responsible for a relevant service provider 10
mentioned in section 31B(b) is the Minister responsible for 11
the child safety department.'. 12
Clause 49 Amendment of s 31I (Report to Minister about 13
noncompliance) 14
(1) Section 31I, heading, `Minister'-- 15
omit, insert-- 16
`Ministers'. 17
(2) Section 31I(2)-- 18
omit, insert-- 19
`(2) The commissioner may prepare a report about the matter and 20
give it to the Minister responsible for the child safety 21
department and the Minister responsible for the service 22
provider. 23
24
Note--
25
Sections 60 to 63 establish a process for reports prepared by the
26
commissioner to be tabled in the Legislative Assembly. The process
27
includes giving an opportunity for an entity to respond to adverse
28
comments in a report.'.
Clause 50 Amendment of s 46 (Identity of notifier under Child 29
Protection Act 1999) 30
(1) Section 46, heading, after `1999'-- 31
insert-- 32
s 51 61 s 53
Child Safety Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2004
`or Health Act 1937'. 1
(2) Section 46(1), `mentioned in the Child Protection Act 1999, 2
section 186'-- 3
omit. 4
(3) Section 46-- 5
insert-- 6
`(3) In this section-- 7
notifier means-- 8
(a) a notifier mentioned in the Child Protection Act 1999, 9
section 186; or 10
(b) a notifier mentioned in the Health Act 1937, 11
section 76KH whose identity is known to the chief 12
executive (child safety).'. 13
Clause 51 Amendment of s 89ZA (Annual report) 14
Section 89ZA-- 15
insert-- 16
`(3) Within 14 sitting days after receiving the report, the Minister 17
must table it in the Legislative Assembly.'. 18
Clause 52 Amendment of s 145 (Evidentiary provisions) 19
(1) Section 145(3), after `commissioner'-- 20
insert-- 21
`, the assistant commissioner'. 22
(2) Section 145(4), after `commissioner'-- 23
insert-- 24
`or assistant commissioner'. 25
Clause 53 Amendment of s 152 (Confidentiality of information about 26
criminal history) 27
(1) Section 152(1)(a), after `commissioner'-- 28
s 54 62 s 56
Child Safety Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2004
insert-- 1
`, the assistant commissioner'. 2
(2) Section 152(2)(a), after `commissioner,'-- 3
insert-- 4
`the assistant commissioner,'. 5
(3) Section 152(4)(a), after `commissioner'-- 6
insert-- 7
`, the assistant commissioner'. 8
(4) Section 152(4)(b), after `commissioner,'-- 9
insert-- 10
`the assistant commissioner,'. 11
Clause 54 Amendment of s 153 (Confidentiality of other 12
information) 13
Section 153(3)(a) and (c), after `commissioner'-- 14
insert-- 15
`or assistant commissioner'. 16
Clause 55 Amendment of s 161 (Protection from liability) 17
Section 161(3), definition official, paragraph (a), after 18
`commissioner'-- 19
insert-- 20
`or assistant commissioner'. 21
Clause 56 Amendment of sch 4 (Dictionary) 22
(1) Schedule 4, definition government entity-- 23
omit, insert-- 24
`government entity means a government entity under the 25
Public Service Act 1996, section 21, and includes the police 26
service to the extent it is not a government entity under that 27
section.'. 28
s 57 63 s 59
Child Safety Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2004
(2) Schedule 4, definition monitoring functions, `section 15(3)'-- 1
omit, insert-- 2
`section 15AA'. 3
Part 6 Amendment of Coroners Act 4
2003 5
Clause 57 Act amended in pt 6 6
This part amends the Coroners Act 2003. 7
Clause 58 Amendment of s 53 (Access to investigation documents 8
for research purposes) 9
Section 53(2)(b), after `section 17'-- 10
insert-- 11
`or the Child Protection Act 1999, section 159P '. 13
12
Clause 59 Amendment of s 54 (Access to investigation documents 13
for other purposes) 14
Section 54(7)-- 15
omit, insert-- 16
`(7) Despite anything in this section-- 17
(a) a document, to the extent that it contains confidential 18
information obtained under section 17,14 may only be 19
accessed under section 17(4); and 20
(b) a document, to the extent that it contains confidential 21
information obtained under the Child Protection Act 22
13 Child Protection Act 1999, section 159P (Release of information for an investigation
under the Coroners Act)
14 Section 17 (Disclosure of confidential information to Coroners Court)
s 60 64 s 62
Child Safety Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2004
1999, section 159P,15 may only be accessed under 1
section 159P(3) of that Act.'. 2
Clause 60 Amendment of sch 2 (Dictionary) 3
Schedule 2, definition confidential document-- 4
omit, insert-- 5
`confidential document means a document containing, or the 6
part of a document that contains, information obtained under 7
section 17 or the Child Protection Act 1999, section 159P.16'. 8
Part 7 Amendment of Family Services 9
Act 1987 10
Clause 61 Act amended in pt 7 11
This part amends the Family Services Act 1987. 12
Clause 62 Insertion of new s 30A 13
After section 30-- 14
insert-- 15
`30A Delegation 16
`(1) The Minister may delegate the Minister's powers under 17
section 11(3), (4) and (6) to an appropriately qualified public 18
service officer or employee. 19
`(2) In this section-- 20
15 Child Protection Act 1999, section 159P (Release of information for an investigation
under the Coroners Act)
16 Section 17 (Disclosure of confidential information to Coroners Court) or the Child
Protection Act 1999, section 159P (Release of information for an investigation under
the Coroners Act)
s 63 65 s 66
Child Safety Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2004
appropriately qualified, for a person to whom a power may be 1
delegated, includes having the qualifications, experience or 2
standing appropriate to exercise the power.'. 3
Part 8 Amendment of Health Act 1937 4
Clause 63 Act amended in pt 8 5
This part amends the Health Act 1937. 6
Clause 64 Amendment of s 5 (Interpretation) 7
(1) Section 5(1), definition parent-- 8
omit. 9
(2) Section 5(1)-- 10
insert-- 11
`chief executive (child safety), for part 3, division 6, see 12
section 76K. 13
child, for part 3, division 6, see section 76K. 14
harm, for part 3, division 6, see section 76K. 15
parent, for part 3, division 6, see section 76KA. 16
professional, for part 3, division 6, see section 76K. 17
registered nurse, for part 3, division 6, see section 76K. 18
Clause 65 Replacement of pt 3, div 6, hdg (Maltreatment of children) 19
Part 3, division 6, heading-- 20
omit, insert-- 21
`Division 6 Harm to children'. 22
Clause 66 Replacement of s 76K (Notification of maltreatment) 23
Section 76K-- 24
s 66 66 s 66
Child Safety Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2004
omit, insert-- 1
`76K Definitions for div 6 2
`In this division-- 3
chief executive (child safety) means the chief executive of the 4
department in which the Child Protection Act 1999 is 5
administered. 6
child means an individual who is under 18. 7
harm, to a child, means any detrimental effect on the child's 8
physical, psychological or emotional wellbeing-- 9
(a) that is of a significant nature; and 10
(b) that has been caused by-- 11
(i) physical, psychological or emotional abuse or 12
neglect; or 13
(ii) sexual abuse or exploitation. 14
parent, for part 3, division 6, see section 76KA. 15
professional, for part 3, division 6, see section 76K. 16
registered nurse means a person registered under the Nursing 17
Act 1992 as a registered nurse. 18
`76KA Meaning of parent for div 6 19
`(1) For this division, a parent of a child is the child's mother, 20
father or someone else, other than the chief executive (child 21
safety), having or exercising parental responsibility for the 22
child. 23
`(2) However, a person standing in the place of a parent of a child 24
on a temporary basis is not a parent of the child. 25
`(3) A parent of an Aboriginal child includes a person who, under 26
Aboriginal tradition, is regarded as a parent of the child. 27
`(4) A parent of a Torres Strait Islander child includes a person 28
who, under Island custom, is regarded as a parent of the child. 29
`(5) A reference in this division to the parents of a child or to one 30
of the parents of a child is, if the child has only 1 parent, a 31
reference to the parent. 32
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`76KB Relationship with Child Protection Act 1999 1
`(1) The Child Protection Act 1999, sections 22 and 186, include 17
2
provision relevant to a professional giving a notice or other 3
information to the chief executive (child safety) under this 4
division. 5
`(2) If there is in force, for a child, both an order under the Child 6
Protection Act 1999 and an order under section 76L, the order 7
under the Child Protection Act 1999 prevails to the extent of 8
any inconsistency. 9
`76KC Mandatory reporting--immediate notice 10
`(1) This section applies if-- 11
(a) a professional becomes aware, or reasonably suspects, 12
during the practice of his or her profession, that a child 13
has been, is being, or is likely to be, harmed; and 14
(b) as far as the professional is aware, no other professional 15
has notified the chief executive (child safety) under this 16
section about the harm or likely harm. 17
`(2) The professional must immediately give notice of the harm or 18
likely harm to the chief executive (child safety)-- 19
(a) orally; or 20
(b) by facsimile, email or similar communication. 21
`(3) The notice must include-- 22
(a) the following information, to the extent the professional 23
has it or can reasonably obtain it-- 24
(i) the child's name; 25
(ii) the place or places where the child lives; 26
(iii) the names of the child's parents; 27
(iv) the place or places where the parents live or may 28
be contacted; and 29
17 Child Protection Act 1999, sections 22 (Protection from liability for notification of,
or information given about, alleged harm or risk of harm) and 186 (Confidentiality
of notifiers of harm or risk of harm)
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Child Safety Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2004
(b) details of the harm or likely harm of which the 1
professional is aware or that the professional suspects; 2
and 3
(c) the professional's name, address and telephone number. 4
`(4) To remove any doubt, it is declared that a professional may 5
need to seek further information about harm or likely harm to 6
a child before forming a reasonable suspicion about the 7
matter. 8
9
Example--
10
After physically examining a child, a professional considers it possible
11
that the child has been harmed. The professional obtains more
12
information by consulting with a colleague. After obtaining the further
13
information, the professional forms a reasonable suspicion that the child
14
has been harmed.
`76KD Mandatory reporting--follow-up notice 15
`(1) This section applies if a professional gives notice orally under 16
section 76KC. 17
`(2) Within 7 days after giving the oral notice, the professional 18
must give the chief executive (child safety) a written notice 19
about the harm or likely harm. 20
`(3) The written notice must include the information, as at the time 21
the written notice is given, about the matters stated in 22
section 76KC(3). 23
`(4) The professional must give the written notice even if the 24
professional no longer believes or suspects the child has been, 25
is being, or is likely to be, harmed. 26
`76KE Offence 27
`A professional who fails to give a notice under section 76KC 28
or 76KD commits an offence. 29
Maximum penalty--50 penalty units. 30
s 66 69 s 66
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`76KF Further information may be required 1
`(1) This section applies to a professional who has given the chief 2
executive (child safety) a notice about harm or likely harm 3
under section 76KC or 76KD. 4
`(2) The chief executive (child safety) may ask the professional, 5
orally or in writing, for stated further information that the 6
chief executive (child safety) reasonably considers is needed 7
to properly assess the harm or likely harm. 8
`(3) The professional must comply with the request, unless the 9
professional has a reasonable excuse. 10
Maximum penalty--50 penalty units. 11
`(4) A professional is not liable to be prosecuted for an offence 12
against subsection (3) unless the chief executive (child 13
safety), when making the request, warns the professional it is 14
an offence to fail to comply with the request unless the 15
professional has a reasonable excuse. 16
`76KG Protection from liability for giving information to 17
professional 18
`(1) This section applies if a person, acting honestly, gives 19
information to a professional by-- 20
(a) telling the professional that the person is aware, or 21
suspects, that a child has been, is being, or is likely to 22
be, harmed; or 23
(b) giving other information relating to the harm mentioned 24
in paragraph (a). 25
26
Examples of persons who may give information to a professional under
27
this section--
28
· a fellow professional seeking help to decide whether there are
29
reasonable grounds for forming a suspicion that the child has been
30
harmed
31
· a health professional, administrative worker in a health practice,
32
emergency services officer, teacher or other person who, in the
33
course of the person's employment, observed something that raised
34
a suspicion the child had been harmed
35
· a relative or friend of the child
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Child Safety Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2004
`(2) The person is not liable, civilly, criminally or under an 1
administrative process, for giving the information. 2
`(3) Without limiting subsection (2)-- 3
(a) in a proceeding for defamation, the person has a defence 4
of absolute privilege for publishing the information; and 5
(b) if the person would otherwise be required to maintain 6
confidentiality about the information under an Act, oath 7
or rule of law or practice, the person-- 8
(i) does not contravene the Act, oath or rule of law or 9
practice by giving the information; and 10
(ii) is not liable to disciplinary action for giving the 11
information. 12
`76KH Confidentiality of notifiers 13
`(1) This section applies if a person (the notifier) gives 14
information under section 76KG(1) to a professional. 15
`(2) The professional to whom the information is given, or another 16
person who becomes aware of the identity of the notifier, must 17
not disclose the identity of the notifier to another person 18
except-- 19
(a) as permitted or required under this division; or 20
(b) in the course of performing functions under a child 21
protection law to another person performing functions 22
under a child protection law; or 23
(c) under the Child Protection (International Measures) Act 24
2003, part 6;18 or 25
(d) to the ombudsman for the conduct of an investigation 26
under the Ombudsman Act 2001; or 27
(e) by way of evidence given in a legal proceeding under 28
subsections (4) and (5). 29
Maximum penalty--40 penalty units. 30
18 Child Protection (International Measures) Act 2003, part 6 (Co-operation and other
matters)
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`(3) Also, the chief executive (child safety) may disclose the 1
identity of the notifier to the Commissioner for Children and 2
Young People and Child Guardian under the Commission for 3
Children and Young People and Child Guardian Act 2000, 4
section 46. 5
`(4) Subject to subsection (5)-- 6
(a) evidence of the identity of the notifier or from which the 7
identity of the notifier could be deduced must not be 8
given in a proceeding before a court or tribunal without 9
leave of the court or tribunal; and 10
(b) unless leave is granted, a party or witness in the 11
proceeding-- 12
(i) must not be asked, and, if asked, can not be 13
required to answer, any question that can not be 14
answered without disclosing the identity of, or 15
leading to the identification of, the notifier; and 16
(ii) must not be asked to produce, and, if asked, can 17
not be required to produce, any document that 18
identifies, or may lead to the identification of, the 19
notifier. 20
`(5) The court or tribunal must not grant leave unless-- 21
(a) it is satisfied-- 22
(i) the evidence is of critical importance in the 23
proceeding; and 24
(ii) there is compelling reason in the public interest for 25
disclosure; or 26
(b) the notifier agrees to the evidence being given in the 27
proceeding. 28
`(6) In deciding whether to grant leave, the court or tribunal must 29
take into account-- 30
(a) the possible effects of disclosure on the safety or welfare 31
of the notifier and the notifier's family; and 32
(b) the public interest in maintaining confidentiality of 33
notifiers. 34
s 67 72 s 67
Child Safety Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2004
`(7) As far as practicable, an application for leave must be heard in 1
a way that protects the identity of the notifier pending a 2
decision on the application. 3
`(8) In this section-- 4
child protection law means-- 5
(a) the Child Protection Act 1999; or 6
(b) a child welfare law or interstate law of another State 7
within the meanings given by the Child Protection Act 8
1999, schedule 3.'. 9
Clause 67 Amendment of s 76L (Temporary custody of children) 10
(1) Section 76L(2)(b)-- 11
omit, insert-- 12
`(b) the prescribed medical officer becomes aware, or 13
reasonably suspects, that the child has been, is being, or 14
is likely to be, harmed;'. 15
(2) Section 76L(3), from `suspects' to `danger'-- 16
omit, insert-- 17
`becomes aware, or reasonably suspects, that the child has 18
been, is being, or is likely to be, harmed'. 19
(3) Section 76L(10), after `(3)'-- 20
insert-- 21
`, that officer'. 22
(4) Section 76L(16), from `--' to `(b)'-- 23
omit. 24
(5) Section 76L(17), after `subsection (16)'-- 25
insert-- 26
`or (17)'. 27
(6) Section 76L(17)-- 28
renumber as section 76L(18). 29
s 68 73 s 71
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(7) Section 76L-- 1
insert-- 2
`(17) As soon as practicable after making an order under 3
subsection (2) or (3), the prescribed medical officer must give 4
the chief executive (child safety) a notice about the order.'. 5
Clause 68 Omission of s 76M (Meaning of child for division) 6
Section 76M-- 7
omit. 8
Part 9 Amendment of Juvenile Justice 9
Act 1992 10
Clause 69 Act amended in pt 9 11
This part amends the Juvenile Justice Act 1992. 12
Clause 70 Amendment of s 257 (Interpretation) 13
Section 257, definition parent, after `chief executive'-- 14
insert-- 15
`(child safety)'. 16
Clause 71 Amendment of s 259 (Show cause hearing) 17
Section 259(12), after `chief executive'-- 18
insert-- 19
`(child safety)'. 20
s 72 74 s 72
Child Safety Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2004
Clause 72 Amendment of sch 4 (Dictionary) 1
Schedule 4-- 2
insert-- 3
`chief executive (child safety) means the chief executive of 4
the department in which the Child Protection Act 1999 is 5
administered.'. 6
© State of Queensland 2004
AMENDMENTS TO BILL
1
Child Safety Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2004
Child Safety Legislation Amendment Bill
(No. 2) 2004
Amendment agreed to during Consideration
1 Clause 66--
Page 66, line 16--
omit, insert--
`professional means a doctor or registered nurse.'.
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