New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS (CARE AND PROTECTION) ACT 1998 - SECT 84

84 Requirements of permanency plans involving restoration

(1) A permanency plan involving restoration is to include the following--

(a) a description of the minimum outcomes the Secretary believes must be achieved before it would be safe for the child or young person to return to his or her parents,

(b) details of the services the Department is able to provide, or arrange the provision of, to the child or young person or his or her family in order to facilitate restoration,

(c) details of other services that the Children's Court could request other government departments or funded non-government agencies to provide to the child or young person or his or her family in order to facilitate restoration,

(d) a statement of the length of time during which restoration should be actively pursued.

(2) In this section,
"parent" , in relation to the child or young person concerned, means--

(a) if the child or young person has been adopted--the child's or young person's adoptive parent, or

(b) if the child or young person has not been adopted--the child's or young person's birth parent.