Relevant legislation

Legislation relevant to the Commission’s functions

The Commission’s functions are established legislatively in the Commission for Children and Young People and Child Guardian Act 2000 (the Commission’s Act), and include the following key functions:

• employment screening of certain types of child-related employment and businesses
• encouraging organisations providing essential and developmentally focussed services to children and young people to strengthen safeguards for managing child protection risks
• educating the community to comply with the Commission’s Act
• administering Individual Advocacy and Resolution for Queensland children and young people in alternative home care, including foster care
• receiving and investigating complaints about services to children and young people known to the child safety and juvenile justice systems
• monitoring and reviewing laws, policies and practices that impact on the safety and wellbeing of vulnerable children and young people at risk
• maintaining a child death register and conducting research into child deaths
• providing secretariat support to the Child Death Case Review Committee, which is chaired by the Commissioner and whose membership includes the Assistant Commissioner
• conducting research into issues impacting on the safety and wellbeing of children and young people, and
• promoting laws, policies and practices that uphold the rights, interests and wellbeing of children and young people, particularly those at risk.

Five other Acts are of key relevance to the Commission, namely:

• Child Protection Act 1999
• Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2009
• Mental Health Act 2000
• Youth Justice Act 1992, and
• Child Care Act 2002.

Last Updated: May 17, 2013

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