Nature of risk assessment
18M Nature of risk assessment
A risk assessment of a person for the purposes of this Part is an assessment and determination by the central assessment unit as to whether the person poses a risk of harm to people with disability.
For the purposes of this Part, a reference to a risk of harm to people with disability is to be interpreted in accordance with the following principles:
the risk of harm must be a real and appreciable risk of harm;
the risk of harm does not need to be likely or significant;
the risk of harm need not arise from recent events.
In this section—
harm includes—
any detrimental effect on a person's physical, psychological, emotional or financial wellbeing (personal harm);
and
non-consensual or inappropriate conduct of a sexual nature with or towards a person (whether or not that conduct poses a risk of personal harm).
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