A new category of mandated report (commencing 30 March 2007)
The Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Miscellaneous Amendments Act 2006 No 95 (Sch 1 [1], commencing 30 March 2007), amended s 23 by adding a new category of mandated report, in s 23(f). Reports were required of situations where a child was the subject of a pre-natal report and ‘the birth mother of the child did not engage successfully with support services to eliminate, or minimize to the lowest level reasonably practical, the risk factors that gave rise to the report’. This is also a broader reporting duty generally not replicated elsewhere.16
