Overview
The Children, Youth and Families Act 2005 (the Act) places strong emphasis on the wellbeing and safety of children who cannot live safely at home, and sets out procedeures and principles for the protection of Children including their best interests. The Act also provides for a number of new initiatives including:
- new processes for investigating allegations of physical and sexual abuse against a child or young person in out of home care
- the creation of a Suitability Panel (the Panel) to assess whether an allegation of physical or sexual abuse against a child is proved and whether, as a result, an individual is found to pose an unacceptable risk of harm to children and is therefore disqualified from being registered to care for children.
