19Application for accreditation—the Act, Sch 3A, s 4(2)(c)

19 Application for accreditation—the Act, Sch 3A, s 4(2)(c)

19 Application for accreditation—the Act, Sch 3A, s 4(2)(c)

(1) An application for accreditation as a designated agency must include a policy (a behaviour support policy) that—

(a) sets out behaviour support practices, including the giving of support and counselling, to be applied by authorised carers in the care, management and discipline of children under the supervisory responsibility of the applicant, and

(b) describes procedures for the use of physical restraint, including consent processes and reporting on the use of restraint, and

(c) recognises that the following are prohibited—

(i) physical coercion or physical punishment,

(ii) punishment in the form of immobilisation,

(iii) force-feeding or the deprivation of food,

(iv) punishment intended to humiliate or frighten a child.

(2) An application for accreditation as a designated agency must also include—

(a) a psychotropic drugs policy that sets out the steps the applicant will take on becoming aware that a psychotropic drug has been prescribed to a child in statutory out-of-home care, and

(b) a statement setting out the applicant’s views on the administration of psychotropic drugs to children.

(3) In this section—

psychotropic drug means medication—

(a) issued under a prescription of a medical practitioner, and

(b) that can affect cognition, perception, thinking, mood, behaviour or level of arousal by acting on the central nervous system.

s 19: Ins 2022 (480), Sch 1[7].