43Children’s Guardian may monitor relevant entity’s investigation or determination

43 Children’s Guardian may monitor relevant entity’s investigation or determination

43 Children’s Guardian may monitor relevant entity’s investigation or determination

(1) The Children’s Guardian may, on the Children’s Guardian’s own initiative or because of a complaint, monitor the progress of an investigation or determination by the head of a relevant entity into a report if the Children’s Guardian considers the monitoring is in the public interest.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1), the Children’s Guardian may do the following to monitor an investigation—

(a) observe interviews carried out for the purposes of the investigation,

(b) discuss the investigation with the head of the relevant entity,

(c) provide guidance and advice to the relevant entity about the investigation,

(d) by written notice, require the head of the relevant entity or the investigator to provide to the Children’s Guardian documents or other information, including records of interviews, relating to the investigation,

(d1) review the relevant entity’s systems, policies and processes and their effectiveness in preventing, and responding to, reportable allegations and reportable convictions,

(e) a thing prescribed by the regulations for this section.

s 43: Am 2021 No 30, Sch 1[5].