Oranga Tamariki Act 1989

Children and young persons in care of chief executive or other persons or bodies - Financial matters

389A: Review of decisions about financial or other assistance to permanent caregivers

You could also call this:

"Checking decisions about money help for permanent caregivers"

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If you are a permanent caregiver and you do not agree with a decision made by the chief executive about financial or other assistance under section 388A(2), you can ask for the decision to be reviewed. The chief executive has a process for reviewing these decisions, and they will look at the decision again. They can decide to keep the original decision, change it, or cancel it.

The chief executive will follow their own process to review the decision, and they will make a new decision based on that review. If the decision is confirmed or changed, it will be treated as the chief executive's new decision under section 388A(2). This new decision will be the one that is used from then on.

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389: Financial assistance in other cases, or

"Help with money to care for a child when other support stops"

389B: Appeal against decisions about financial or other assistance to permanent caregivers, or

"Appealing a decision about help for permanent caregivers of children"

Part 7Children and young persons in care of chief executive or other persons or bodies
Financial matters

389AReview of decisions about financial or other assistance to permanent caregivers

A permanent caregiver who is dissatisfied with any decision of the chief executive regarding the provision of financial or other assistance under section 388A(2) may apply for an internal review of that decision.
The internal review must be conducted in accordance with a process established from time to time by the chief executive for that purpose, and must confirm, modify, or reverse the original decision.
A confirmed or modified decision is for all purposes to be treated as the decision of the chief executive under section 388A(2).

Notes

Section 389A: inserted, on 30 June 2016, by section 39 of the Children, Young Persons, and Their Families (Vulnerable Children) Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 41).