30Care and protection co-ordinator to seek agreement to decisions, recommendations, and plans of family group conference

1. Where a family group conference makes any decision or recommendation, or formulates any plan, pursuant to section 29(1) or subsection (4) of this section, the care and protection co-ordinator who convened that conference shall,—

2. if the conference was convened under section 18AAA,—
   1. communicate that decision, recommendation, or plan to the chief executive and to every person who will be directly involved in its implementation; and
   2. seek the agreement of the chief executive, and every other person, organisation, or body to whom that decision, recommendation, or plan is communicated under subparagraph (i), to that decision, recommendation, or plan.
3. if the conference was convened on the basis of a report under section 18(1),—
   1. communicate that decision, recommendation, or plan to—
      1. the person who made the report (A); or
      2. if A was a delegate of the chief executive, a person acting for A (who must also be a person who has been delegated the chief executive’s power to make reports under section 18(1)); or
      3. if A was a constable, another constable acting for A; and
   2. communicate that decision, recommendation, or plan to every person who will be directly involved in its implementation; and
   3. seek the agreement of the persons described in paragraph (a)(i)(A), (B), or (C) (as relevant in any case) and paragraph (a)(ii) to that decision, recommendation, or plan:
4. where the conference was convened under section 19(2)(a) on the basis of a referral from any body, organisation, or court,—
   1. communicate that decision, recommendation, or plan to that body, organisation, or court, and to every person who will be directly involved in the implementation of that decision, recommendation, or plan; and
   2. seek the agreement of that organisation or body, and of every other person (other than a court) to whom that decision, recommendation, or plan is communicated pursuant to subparagraph (i), to that decision, recommendation, or plan.

5. Where, pursuant to paragraph (a)(i) or paragraph (b)(i) of subsection (1), a care and protection co-ordinator meets with any person, body, organisation, or court for the purpose of communicating to that person, body, organisation, or court any decision, recommendation, or plan made or formulated by a family group conference, the care and protection co-ordinator may be accompanied by a person nominated by that family group conference.

6. Where a care and protection co-ordinator is unable to secure agreement, under subsection (1), to a decision, recommendation, or plan made or formulated by a family group conference, the care and protection co-ordinator may, for the purpose of enabling that conference to reconsider that decision, recommendation, or plan, reconvene that conference.

7. Any family group conference reconvened under subsection (3) may confirm, rescind, or modify its previous decision, recommendation, or plan, or rescind its previous decision, recommendation, or plan and make or formulate a new decision, recommendation, or plan.

8. Any decision, recommendation, or plan confirmed or modified under subsection (4), and any new decision, recommendation, or plan made or formulated under that subsection, shall be deemed to have been made or formulated pursuant to section 29.