New Zealand Legislation: Acts

23 Care and protection co-ordinator to ensure that relevant information and advice made available to family group conference

• (1) Every care and protection co-ordinator who convenes a family group conference under this Part shall take all reasonable steps to ensure that all information and advice required by the conference to carry out its functions are made available to the conference.

  (2) Subject to section 22, where it is appropriate for any person (including a member of a care and protection resource panel) to attend a family group conference for the purpose of conveying to that conference any information or advice required by the conference to carry out its functions, that person may attend that conference for that purpose, but may otherwise attend the conference only with the agreement of the conference.