Victorian Current Acts

YOUTH JUSTICE ACT 2024 - SECT 696

The high risk panel has the following functions—

        (a)     to oversee the delivery of services, intensive case management and the delivery and adaptation of interventions to a child or young person who is at high or very high risk of serious offending or causing serious harm;

        (b)     to oversee parole planning and provision of support to a child or young person who is at high or very high risk of serious offending or causing serious harm who is in transition from custody into the community;

        (c)     to identify any emerging behaviours or risks posed by the child or young person and consider—

              (i)     any necessary changes required to their case management arrangements; or

              (ii)     any other actions to support the safety of the community;

        (d)     to recommend or request assessments and oversee placement decisions and the delivery of therapeutic and intensive interventions to any child or young person who engages in high harm conduct in a youth justice custodial centre;

        (e)     to recommend or request assessments and coordinate and monitor the delivery of individualised disengagement interventions to any child or young person at risk of radicalising towards violent extremism;

        (f)     any other prescribed function.