Ongoing obligation to report harm to children in former boot camp centres
305A Ongoing obligation to report harm to children in former boot camp centres
If a former boot camp centre employee is or becomes aware, or reasonably suspects, that a child has suffered harm while participating in the residential phase for a former boot camp program, the former boot camp centre employee must immediately, unless the former boot camp centre employee has a reasonable excuse, report the harm or suspected harm to the chief executive.
Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.
It is immaterial how the harm was caused.
It is a reasonable excuse, for the former boot camp centre employee not to report the harm or suspected harm, that reporting of the harm or suspected harm might tend to incriminate the employee.
Subsection (1) does not apply if the former boot camp centre employee knows or reasonably considers that the chief executive is aware of the harm or suspected harm.
In this section—
boot camp program means a program approved as a boot camp program under repealed section 226E as in force from time to time before the commencement.
former boot camp centre means a place that was operated by a former boot camp centre provider from which services and facilities necessary for the residential phase for a boot camp program were provided.
former boot camp centre employee means a person who was employed at a former boot camp centre.
former boot camp centre provider means a person who was approved under repealed section 282A, as in force from time to time before the commencement, as a boot camp centre provider.
harm, to a child, is any detrimental effect of a significant nature on the child’s physical, psychological or emotional wellbeing.
residential phase, for a boot camp program, means the 1 month placement mentioned in repealed section 226E(3)(a) as in force from time to time before the commencement.
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