Oranga Tamariki Act 1989

Care and protection of children and young persons - Family group conferences

23: Care and protection co-ordinator to ensure that relevant information and advice made available to family group conference

You could also call this:

"Someone helps make sure you have all the information you need at a family meeting"

Illustration for Oranga Tamariki Act 1989

When you are part of a family group conference, a care and protection co-ordinator is in charge of making sure you have all the information you need. The co-ordinator must take all reasonable steps to ensure that all information and advice required by the conference is made available. This includes information about the health and education needs of every child or young person involved in the conference.

If someone needs to attend the conference to give important information or advice, they can do so, but only if it is appropriate and allowed by section 22. This person can only attend the rest of the conference if the conference agrees to it.

The care and protection co-ordinator's job is to make sure the conference has everything it needs to make good decisions, and that everyone involved has the information they need to participate.

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22: Persons entitled to attend family group conference, or

"Who can attend a family group conference to help make decisions about a child or young person?"

24: Care and protection co-ordinator to ascertain views of persons unable to attend family group conference, or

"Getting your views heard if you can't attend a family meeting"

Part 2Care and protection of children and young persons
Family group conferences

23Care and protection co-ordinator to ensure that relevant information and advice made available to family group conference

Every care and protection co-ordinator who convenes a family group conference under this Part shall take all reasonable steps to ensure that all information and advice that the co-ordinator considers are required by the conference to carry out its functions (including information and advice relating to the health and education needs of every child or young person in respect of whom the conference is convened) are made available to the conference.
Subject to section 22, where it is appropriate for any person (including a member of a care and protection resource panel) to attend a family group conference for the purpose of conveying to that conference any information or advice required by the conference to carry out its functions, that person may attend that conference for that purpose, but may otherwise attend the conference only with the agreement of the conference.

Notes

Section 23(1): amended, on 30 June 2016, by section 12(a) of the Children, Young Persons, and Their Families (Vulnerable Children) Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 41).
Section 23(1): amended, on 30 June 2016, by section 12(b) of the Children, Young Persons, and Their Families (Vulnerable Children) Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 41).