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Chief Executive - Department for Child Youth and Family Services v H (21 June 2000) FC, Auckland, CYPF 048/397/99, Boshier DCJ

Name: Chief Executive - Department for Child Youth and Family Services v H
Unreported
File Number: CYPF 048/397/99
Date: 21 June 2000
Court: Family Court
Location: Auckland
Judge: Boshier DCJ
Charge:
CYPFA: s283(n); s280
Key Title: Care and Protection cross-over; Custody - Chief Executive; Orders - Supervision with residence - s283(n); Reports - Social Worker

Summary: Care and protection plan failed to work; report by social worker suggests a residential placement be achieved through a Supervision with residence order; social worker advises all institutions are full and cannot guarantee a Supervision with residence order will lead to H being placed in an institution; Police object and say they may have to intervene; Judge concerned that Supervision with residence order should be carried out if made by the Court as "to do otherwise, is to begin to abandon the rule of law".

Decision: Supervision with residence order; Care and protection plan to be reviewed in November 2000.