6Child Safety Reform Implementation Monitor appointed

6 Child Safety Reform Implementation Monitor appointed

(1)  The Governor is to appoint a person, on the recommendation of the Minister, to the office of Child Safety Reform Implementation Monitor.

(2)  The Minister may only recommend a person to be appointed, under subsection (1) , to the office of Implementation Monitor if the Minister is satisfied that the person –

(a) has sufficient relevant experience, or qualifications, relating to one or more of the following areas:

(i) child safety including, but not limited to, responses relating to child sexual abuse;

(ii) services provided to young persons; and

(b) has sufficient relevant knowledge of, or experience in –

(i) the principles of senior management in the public sector or public administration; and

(ii) understanding, and implementing, major reforms within the public sector or a similar setting; and

(iii) implementing procedures and approaches which have the primary purpose of avoiding, as far as possible, further harm or trauma to individuals –

to perform the functions and exercise the powers of the Implementation Monitor; and

(c) is not –

(i) a person; or

(ii) the spouse, partner, significant other, parent, child or sibling, of any kind, of a person –

who is either named, or who holds an office that is named, in relation to a monitored recommendation or a finding in a relevant reform report; and

(d) holds the prescribed registration, and has completed satisfactorily the prescribed checks, to ensure that the person is a suitable person to perform the functions and exercise the powers of the Implementation Monitor.

(3)  Subsection (2)(c) does not apply to a person if the recommendation of the person to be Implementation Monitor has been approved by both Houses of Parliament.

(4)  If a person appointed to the office of Implementation Monitor becomes aware that or no longer applies to the person while the person is so appointed, the person must notify the Minister as soon as practicable after becoming aware of that fact.