703Service agreements

703 Service agreements

(1) Before Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing Victoria enters into a service agreement with a mental health and wellbeing service provider, the Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing Board must consider the following—

(a) whether the provider has appropriate governance and governance policies;

(b) any arrangements made by the provider—

(i) to ensure that the provider makes efficient use of its resources; and

(ii) to monitor and improve the quality and safety of youth mental health and wellbeing services provided by the provider; and

(iii) to make the provider's services—

(A) accessible, inclusive and equitable to all; and

(B) responsive and able to meet a person's needs in a safe and sensitive manner; and

(C) informed by the lived experience of young people; and

(iv) to enable users of the provider's services to make informed decisions about health care; and

(v) to enable the provider's employees to participate in decisions about their work environment;

(c) whether the provider has links with the local communities to which it provides youth mental health and wellbeing services;

(d) whether the provider has appropriate knowledge and experience in relation to the complex, diverse and intersecting needs of young persons in the provision of mental health and wellbeing services;

(e) whether the provider has an appropriate understanding of the broader service system for young people.

(2) Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing Victoria may make it a term of a service agreement that the agreement not take effect until a mental health and wellbeing service provider is declared to be a declared operator under section 704.

See also section 706 for functions a declared operator may be required to carry out under a service agreement.

Part 16.3—Declared operators providing youth mental health and wellbeing services

Division 1—Declared operators

704 Declared operators

(1) On the recommendation of the Minister, the Governor in Council, by notice published in the Government Gazette, may declare an entity specified in subsection (2) to be a declared operator for the purposes of providing youth mental health and wellbeing services under a service agreement with Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing Victoria.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), the following are specified—

S. 704(2)(a) amended by No. 20/2023 s. 43.

(a) an entity specified in paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e) of the definition of ;