Children and Young People Act 2008
197Monitoring—general considerations
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197 Monitoring—general considerations In exercising a function under this division, the director-general must ensure, as far as practicable, that the following are balanced appropriately: (a) the need to protect the safety of young detainees, authorised people, other people who work at or visit detention places, and the community; (b) the need for security and good order at detention places; (c) the benefits of young detainees maintaining contact with the community outside detention places; (d) the need to protect the privacy of young detainees; (e) the need to detect prohibited things entering, at, or leaving detention places; (f) the need to prevent intimidation and corruption at detention places, and the commission of offences; (g) anything else the director-general believes on reasonable grounds to be relevant.