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Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability ServicesChild Safety Services

  • Introduction
    • Department of Child Safety, Youth and Women
    • Relevant legislation
    • Other key documents
    • Child safety service centres: staff roles and responsibilities
    • Framework for the participation of children and young people in decision-making
    • Respecting diversity
    • Delegations
    • Accountability for children in Queensland
    • Resources
  • Framework for practice and maps
    • Practice maps
  • Chapters
    • 1. Intake
    • 2. Investigation and assessment
    • 3. Ongoing intervention
    • 4. Case planning
    • 5. Children in care
    • 6. Intervention with parental agreement
    • 7. Support service cases
    • 8. Regulation of care
    • 9. Standards of care
    • 10. General
  • Practice papers
  • Resources
    • Forms and templates
    • Departmental Resources
    • External
  • Structured Decision Making
    • What is Structured Decision Making?
    • Background to implementation
    • How do SDM assessments fit with professional judgement?
    • SDM assessments
    • Case reading
    • SDM resources
  • Quicklinks
    • Acronyms
    • Glossary of terms
    • How to use the Child Safety Practice Manual
    • Previous versions
    • Printable version
    • Updates

10.21 Family courts

  • Key steps
    • 1. The family courts and child protection interface
    • 2. Exchange of information
    • 3. Assess information received about harm or risk of harm
    • 4. Respond to an order requesting intervention by the department - section 91B orders
    • 5. Undertake an investigation and assessment
    • 6. Respond to a child in need of protection
  • What ifs
  • Resources
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Resources

Forms and templates

  • CSSC response 91B letter
  • Statement of position letter

Departmental resources

  • Intervention diagram
  • Key factors for the Department when considering the level of intervention in a Family Law Court Proceeding
  • Practice resource: Working with family courts (PDF, 36 KB)

External resources

  • Family consultants Fact sheet
  • Family Court of Australia
  • Family Law Courts 
  • Federal Circuit Court of Australia
  • Form 4 Notice of Child Abuse, Family Violence or Risk of Family Violence (PDF)
  • Guidelines for Independent Children's Sawyers (PDF)
  • Magellan notification
  • Notification under section 67ZA Family Law Act 1975
  • Protocol between the Family Court of Australia and The Federal Magistrates Court of Australia and the Department of Child Safety Queensland
Last reviewed
20 April 2018
Last modified
11 September 2016
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