100BMitigation of impact of interviews on children

100B Mitigation of impact of interviews on children

(1) This section applies if the Regulator, a Panel, an authorised officer or an independent investigator interviews, or proposes to interview, a child that is a WCES service user or has the characteristics of a WCES service user.

(2) The Regulator, Panel, authorised officer or independent investigator may engage a person with appropriate qualifications, training or experience in interviewing child victims of abuse to conduct an interview on behalf of the Regulator, Panel, authorised officer or independent investigator.

(3) Before interviewing a child, the interviewer must consider, and take all reasonable steps to mitigate, any negative effect that the interview may have on the child.

(4) Without limiting subsection (3), the Regulator, Panel, authorised officer or independent investigator must consider whether the child's primary family carer (within the meaning of the Commission for Children and Young People Act 2012) should be present during the interview.