• Introduction
  • Acknowledgments
  • The Department of Child Safety
  • Relevant legislation
  • Other key departmental documents
  • Accountability for children in Queensland
  • Framework for the participation of children and young people in decision-making
  • Respecting diversity
  • Recognised Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander entities
  • Delegations
  • Child safety service centres: Staff roles and responsibilities
  • How to use the Child Safety Practice Manual
• Practice maps
  • Child Safety framework
  • Intake
  • Investigation and assessment
  • Ongoing intervention
  • Matters of concern
• General procedures
  • i. Decision-making about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
  • ii. Staff safety and well-being
  • iii. Structured Decision Making
  • iv. Statutory obligation to notify the Queensland Police Service of possible criminal offences
  • v. Case management
  • vi. Information sharing
  • vii. Making a referral to Evolve
  • viii. Referral for active intervention services
  • ix. The role of the Child Safety After Hours Service Centre
  • x. Writing affidavits
  • xi. Responding to client complaints
  • xii. Recording alerts for a child and family
  • xiii. Providing adoption services
  • xiv. The video taping or recording of departmental staff
• Chapters
  • 1. Intake
  • 2. Investigation and assessment
  • 3. Use of powers
  • 4. Ongoing intervention
  • 5. Intervention with parental consent
  • 6. Intervention with a child protection order
  • 7. Children in out-of-home care
  • 8. Regulation of care
  • 9. Matters of concern
  • 10. Unborn children
  • 11. Transfers
  • 12. Professional supervision
  • 13. Critical incident reporting
  • 14. Child deaths
  • 15. Family Court of Australia
  • 16. Youth justice and child protection interface
  • 17. Interstate matters
• Appendices
  • Appendix A: Acronyms
  • Appendix B: Glossary
• Practice papers
• Quicklinks
  • Previous versions
  • Printable version
  • Resources
  • Updates

Quicklinks

• Previous versions
• Printable version
• Resources
• Updates
  • Stage 9 updates
  • Stage 8 updates
  • Stage 7 updates
  • Stage 6 updates
  • Stage 5 updates
  • Stage 4 updates
  • Stage 3 updates
  • Stage 2 updates
  • Stage 1 updates

Stage 4 (20 February 2006)

Stage 4 of the practice manual covers transfers and the child protection and youth justice interface. This information is set out in the following chapters:

• Chapter 11: Transfers
• Chapter 16: Youth justice and child protection interface

The glossary of terms, acronyms and Structured Decision Making appendices have also been amended.

Practice changes

Chapter 11: Transfers

The transfer chapter introduces a range of new requirements for the transfer of cases between service centres, including:

• the timeframes for a transfer to occur;
• the immediate allocation of a case and contact with the child;
• the ability to transfer the case of a child on an interim order; and
• the requirement for a service centre to accept transfers of cases that meet the identified criteria.

Chapter 16: Youth justice and child protection interface

The youth justice and child protection interface chapter sets out the requirements for staff working with children who are also subject to youth justice intervention by the Department of Communities. This includes:

• the reporting of harm or risk of harm, and incident reporting, by the Department of Communities
• requirements for CSO involvement in youth justice interventions for children subject to:
• an investigation and assessment;
• non-custodial ongoing intervention; and
• a child protection order granting custody or guardianship
• joint planning and review requirements
• financial responsibilities
• requirements for CSO attendance at youth justice court proceedings
• CSO requirements when a child is placed in a detention centre

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