456Care plans—stability proposals

456 Care plans—stability proposals (1) This section applies if a care plan includes a proposal mentioned in section 455 (b) (iii) in relation to a child’s or young person’s living arrangements. (2) The director-general must prepare a proposal (a stability proposal) that outlines how the director-general proposes to ensure long-term placement in a safe, nurturing and secure environment. (3) A stability proposal may include— (a) for a child or young person who lives with their parents— strategies to ensure stable and long-term living arrangements; and

(b) for a child or young person who does not live with their parents— (i) an assessment of whether restoration of the child or young person to their parents is a realistic possibility; or (ii) a proposal for restoration that includes changes at the home or by the parents that the director-general believes would need to occur before the director-general would consider it safe for the child or young person to return to their parents; or (iii) a proposal for long-term placement that the director-general considers to be in the best interests of the (c) anything else the director-general considers necessary to ensure a long-term placement in a safe, nurturing and secure environment. (4) A proposal for long-term placement may include— (a) placement under a care and protection order with a long-term parental responsibility provision; or (b) placement under a care and protection order with an enduring parental responsibility provision; or (c) placement under a parenting order under the Family Law Act 1975 (Cwlth); or (d) adoption under the Adoption Act 1993. (5) The director-general must not include adoption in a proposal for long- term placement for an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander child or young person under subsection (4) unless the director-general has considered the Adoption Act 1993, section 39G.

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