Vulnerable Children Act 2014

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Reprint as at 1 May 2018

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Vulnerable Children Act 2014

Public Act
 
2014 No 40
Date of assent
 
30 June 2014
Commencement
 
see section 2
Note

Changes authorised by subpart 2 of Part 2 of the Legislation Act 2012 have been made in this official reprint.

Note 4 at the end of this reprint provides a list of the amendments incorporated.

This Act is administered by the Ministry for Vulnerable Children, Oranga Tamariki and the Ministry of Education.

Contents

1Title
2Commencement
3Act binds the Crown
Part 1
Government priorities for vulnerable children and vulnerable children’s plan
4Purpose of this Part
5Interpretation
6Improving the well-being of vulnerable children
7Government priorities for vulnerable children
8Preparation of vulnerable children’s plan
9Content of vulnerable children’s plan
10Duration of vulnerable children’s plan
11Effect of vulnerable children’s plan
12Review and amendment or replacement of plan
13Accountabilities
Part 2
Child protection policies
14Purpose of this Part
15Interpretation
16Prescribed State services to adopt, report on, and require child protection policies
17DHBs boards to adopt, report on, and require child protection policies
18School boards to adopt and require child protection policies
19Content of child protection policy
20Effect of child protection policy
Part 3
Children’s worker safety checking
21Purpose of this Part
22Application to Crown
23Interpretation
24Specified organisation defined
Obligations of specified organisations
25Safety checks of new children’s workers
26Safety checks of existing children’s workers
27Periodic safety checks of children’s workers
28Core worker convicted of specified offence not to be employed or engaged
Defences
29Defence of taking all reasonable steps
30Defence relating to short-term emergencies
Safety checks
31Requirements of safety checks
Regulations
32Regulations prescribing requirements for safety checks
33Other regulations
34Transitional provision relating to local authorities, etc
Exemption for workers convicted of specified offence
35Exemption for certain individuals
36Application for exemption
37Revocation of exemption
38Appeal against decision not to grant, or to revoke, exemption
Monitoring compliance
39Requirement to provide information to chief executives
Miscellaneous
40Approval of screening services
41Prosecution of offences
Consequential amendments to other enactments
42Amendments to Crown Organisations (Criminal Liability) Act 2002
43Amendment to Sentencing Act 2002
44Amendment to Criminal Records (Clean Slate) Act 2004
Schedule 1
Regulated services
Schedule 2
Specified offences
Reprint notes

The Parliament of New Zealand enacts as follows: