Member

Amendment 73 proposes that, at the clinical level, there should be an established process to require a clinician to ask appropriate questions of fact to satisfy themselves that there is no cause for doubt about the good intentions of the nominated person or their relationship with the child. That process will be especially relevant when the nominated person is someone other than a parent. However, it is also relevant in the opposite situation, where the nominated person is a parent but the behaviour of either the child or parent gives rise to doubts or suspicions in the clinician’s mind. Will the Minister consider commissioning some appropriate guidance for the use of clinicians in secure mental health settings?