Children Act, 2001

Temporary leave.

205.—(1) The Director of each children detention school shall formulate a temporary leave programme for every child detained in the school for whom temporary leave is appropriate and ensure that every such programme is in accordance with the rules of the school's board of management in that regard.

(2) No temporary leave programme shall provide for temporary leave in the first one month of any child's period of detention.

(3) The Director may suspend, for a specified period, the temporary leave programme of any child or of the children in the school concerned where the Director is satisfied that temporary leave would not be in the best interests of the child or school or of society generally during that period.

(4) The Director may alter the temporary leave programme of any child where he or she is satisfied that to do so would be in the best interests of the child or of society generally.

(5) The one-month period referred to in subsection (2) need not necessarily have been served in one children detention school.