Removing child from corrective services facility
31 Removing child from corrective services facility
The chief executive may remove a child being accommodated with a prisoner in a corrective services facility if any of the following apply—
a court orders that the child live with another person;
the chief executive is satisfied it is in the child’s best interests;
the prisoner with whom the child is accommodated requests the removal;
the child is not a child mentioned in section 30(1)(b)(ii) and becomes eligible to start primary school;
the prisoner with whom the child is accommodated is transferred to another corrective services facility and the chief executive decides the accommodation at the other corrective services facility is not suitable for the child;
the chief executive is satisfied it is in the interests of the good order and management of the facility.
In deciding what is in the child’s best interests, the chief executive must consider each of the following—
the child’s—
age and sex; and
mental and physical health;
anything else the chief executive considers relevant.
Separation of a child from a prisoner with whom the child is accommodated must not be used as a form of discipline against the prisoner.
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