Children First Act 2015
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Number 36 of 2015 | ||
Children First Act 2015 | ||
CONTENTS | ||
Preliminary and General | ||
Section | ||
Child Safeguarding Statements | ||
12. Non-compliance with request to furnish child safeguarding statement | ||
Reporting | ||
16. Agency may request mandated persons to assist with assessments | ||
17. Information obtained by Agency or other persons pursuant to Act | ||
19. Views of child - amendment of Child and Family Agency Act 2013 | ||
Children First Inter-Departmental Implementation Group and Sectoral Implementation Plans | ||
Miscellaneous | ||
Relevant Services | ||
Mandated Persons | ||
Offences for Purposes of Paragraph (a) of Definition of “Sexual Abuse” in Section 2 | ||
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Acts Referred to | ||
Adoption Act 2010 (No. 21) | ||
Child and Family Agency Act 2013 (No. 40) | ||
Child Care Act 1991 (No. 17) | ||
Children Act 2001 (No. 24) | ||
Companies Acts | ||
Criminal Justice Act 2006 (No. 26) | ||
Dentists Act 1985 (No. 9) | ||
Education Act 1998 (No. 51) | ||
Employment Agency Act 1971 (No. 27) | ||
Health Act 2007 (No. 23) | ||
Medical Practitioners Act 2007 (No. 25) | ||
National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Act 2012 (No. 47) | ||
Nurses and Midwives Act 2011 (No. 41) | ||
Ombudsman for Children Act 2002 (No. 22) | ||
Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act 1851 (14 & 15 Vic, c. 93) | ||
Protections for Persons Reporting Child Abuse Act 1998 (No. 49) | ||
Punishment of Incest Act 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 45) | ||
Youth Work Act 2001 (No. 42) | ||
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Number 36 of 2015 | ||
CHILDREN FIRST ACT 2015 | ||
An Act for the purposes of making further and better provision for the care and protection of children and for those purposes to require the preparation, by certain providers of services to children, of child safeguarding statements; to require certain persons to make reports to the Child and Family Agency in respect of children in certain circumstances; to require certain persons to assist the Child and Family Agency in certain circumstances; to provide for the establishment of the Children First Inter-Departmental Implementation Group; to make provision for the preparation of sectoral implementation plans by Departments of State; to provide for the abolition of the common law defence of reasonable chastisement and, for that purpose, to amend the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997 ; and to provide for related matters. | ||
[19 th November, 2015] | ||
Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: |
