Sch 2AAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children — placement for adoption principle

Schedule 2A — Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children — placement for adoption principle [s. 52(1)(ab)] The objective of this principle is to maintain a connection with family and culture for children who are Aboriginal persons or Torres Strait Islanders and who are to be placed with a person or persons with a view to adoption by the person or persons. If there is no appropriate alternative to adoption for the child, the placement of the child for adoption is to be considered in the following order of priority. 1. The child be placed with a person who is an Aboriginal person or a Torres Strait Islander in the child’s community in accordance with local customary practice. 2. The child be placed with a person who is an Aboriginal person or a Torres Strait Islander. 3. The child be placed with a person who is not an Aboriginal person or a Torres Strait Islander but who is sensitive to the needs of the child and capable of promoting the child’s ongoing affiliation with the child’s culture, and where possible, family. [Schedule 2A inserted: No. 8 of 2003 s. 85.]