Justice and Other Information Disclosure Act 2008

Child protection information, about a person in the child protection system or a person in the criminal justice system, is made available by a sending agency to a receiving agency for a child protection purpose if the information is made available for any of the following purposes—

to enable the receiving agency to prepare for a child protection proceeding or a justice proceeding relating to the person;

to enable the receiving agency to attend, or arrange the attendance of the person or someone else, at a child protection proceeding or a justice proceeding relating to the person;

to enable the receiving agency to record and give effect to a court decision made in a child protection proceeding or a justice proceeding relating to the person;

to enable the receiving agency to use the criminal history of the person to the extent the receiving agency is authorised to use the criminal history of the person;

to enable the receiving agency to conduct information linking in relation to the person;

to enable the receiving agency to provide for, or consider whether it needs to provide for, the safety and welfare of—

if the person in the child protection system is a child, the person; or

someone who is a victim because of an offence committed or allegedly committed by the person; or

a witness of an offence committed or allegedly committed by the person; or

a child associated with the person; or

an individual employed or engaged by the receiving agency who may be in contact with the person; or

an individual whose safety or welfare may be at risk because of an association with the person or someone else mentioned in subparagraph (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) or (v);Example—

• an individual named in a domestic violence order made against the person

• an individual who is a neighbour of a victim of the person

to enable the receiving agency to conduct person of interest matching;

to enable the receiving agency—

to conduct research and statistical analysis of any aspect of the criminal justice system or the relationship between the criminal justice system and the child protection system; and

to use the results of the analysis without revealing or being likely to reveal the identity of the person to whom the information relates;

to test whether the technical systems used to make information available under this section are working.