- Case Management Framework Case Management Framework
- To explain the purpose and phases of the case management framework and the responsibilities of departmental officers for each of the phases.
- Managing and exchanging client information Managing and exchanging client information
- Case management responsibilities Case management responsibilities
To explain:- who is responsible for managing a young person's youth justice case
- the responsibilities of departmental officers when a young person moves within Queensland, or interstate or overseas during their supervised order; or moves from interstate to Queensland during their order.
- Case plan Case plan
- Explains the case plan, including the process of development and maintenance.
- General case management issues General case management issues
- To explain the process for managing complex youth justice cases and responding to general case management issues.
- Recording alerts Recording alerts
- To explain who is responsible for recording suicide risk, escape and medical alerts and actions to be taken by departmental officers in response to these events occurring.
- Identifying and reporting harm of a young person Identifying and reporting harm of a young person
- To define harm and to identify the responsibilities of a departmental officer when they suspect a young person has been, or is at risk of being, harmed.
- Working with Child Safety Services Working with Child Safety Services
- To identify when and how a caseworker responds to service requests and exchanges information with the Department of Child Safety and the Child Safety After Hours Service Centre.
- Arranging a court ordered psychological or psychiatric assessment Arranging a court ordered psychological or psychiatric assessment
- To explain the roles and responsibilities of a departmental officer when a court requests a psychological and/or psychiatric assessment of a young person, and to provide guidance on how to engage a practitioner to undertake the assessment.
- Police questioning, charging, arresting, bail and custody Police questioning, charging, arresting, bail and custody
- To explain the process and responsibilities of departmental officers when the police apprehend, question or charge a young person, consider bail or take a young person into custody.
- Youth Justice Conferencing Youth Justice Conferencing
To explain:- the purpose of youth justice conferencing
- how a young person is referred to a youth justice conference
- the responsibilities of departmental officers for undertaking a conference and in developing, implementing and monitoring a conference agreement.
- Role of the departmental officer in court Role of the departmental officer in court
- To explain the roles and responsibilities of a departmental officer when they prepare for court, attend court and take action following the court proceedings. This chapter also explains the roles of other court personnel and court etiquette.
- Bail and the courts Bail and the courts
- To explain the process and responsibilities of departmental officers when the court considers a bail application, grants a bail application, or refuses a bail application and orders that a young person is taken into custody.
- Conditional Bail Program Conditional Bail Program
- To explain the purpose of conditional bail, the processes for developing, implementing and monitoring a conditional bail program, and the responsibilities of departmental officers in administering the program.
- Sentence reviews, court errors and appeals Sentence reviews, court errors and appeals
- To explain the why, when and how an application is made to a court to review a sentence, correct an error of the court or appeal a sentence, and the responsibilities of departmental officers when preparing an application.
- Pre-sentence reports Pre-sentence reports
- To explain the purpose of a pre-sentence report and the process and responsibilities of departmental officers when preparing and lodging a pre-sentence report.
- Applications for breaches and variations Applications for breaches and variations
- To explain the why, when and how an application is made to a court to breach a young person or to vary their order conditions and the responsibilities of departmental officers when preparing an application.
- Administering extra conditions Administering extra conditions
- To explain the process for administering specific extra conditions attached to supervised orders.
- Probation order Probation order
- To explain the purpose of a probation order, the guidelines for implementing and monitoring a young person on the order, and the responsibilities of departmental officers in administering the order.
- Community service order Community service order
- To explain the purpose of a community service order, the guidelines for implementing and monitoring a young person while on a community service order, and the responsibilities of departmental officers in administering the order.
- Intensive supervision order Intensive supervision order
- To explain the purpose of an intensive supervised order, the guidelines for implementing and monitoring a young person while on an intensive supervision order, and the responsibilities of departmental officers in administering the order.
- Conditional release order Conditional release order
- To explain the purpose of a conditional release order, the guidelines for implementing and monitoring a young person while on a conditional release order, and the responsibilities of departmental officers in administering the order.
- Multiple and combined orders Multiple and combined orders
- To explain the processes and responsibilities of departmental officers when a court places a young person on multiple or combined orders.
- Detention order and supervised release order Detention order and supervised release order
- To explain the purpose of a detention order and a supervised release order, the guidelines for implementing and monitoring a young person while on a detention order and supervised release order, and the responsibilities of departmental officers in administering the orders.
- Child Protection Offender Reporting Act Child Protection Offender Reporting Act
Queensland GovernmentDepartment of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services
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Youth Justice Services Practice Manual
Last reviewed 29 March 2011
Last modified 11 October 2011
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