Recommendation (A/HRC/16/52/Add.3) Situation during the visit (A/HRC/16/52/Add.3) Information received in the reporting period population and any related risk factors removed. Over the past five months, the CDA initiated a pilot project designed to separate children with severe behaviour management issues from other children. This pilot is now in place for the Glenhope Place of Safety (severe behaviour management issues) and Homestead Place of Safety (care and protection). The pilot will be reviewed in March 2012 and the findings of which will inform the necessary policy changes and next steps going forward. The term ‗uncontrollable‘ is usually used to refer to instances where a child exhibits or otherwise acts out maladaptive and socially unacceptable behaviours that makes it challenging or difficult for parents or guardian to effectively provide care on their own and which may result in their seeking intervention from third-parties, one of whom is the Jamaican State. This matter will be reviewed as part of a more comprehensive review of the Child Care and Protection Act, which will commence in 2012. Section 8, Subsection 1A of the Child Care and Protection Act 2004, indicates that a child is considered to be in need of care and protection if that child "having no parent or guardian, or having a parent or guardian unfit to exercise care and guardianship, is falling into bad associations, exposed to moral danger, or beyond control‖. 141 An order under subsection (1) may - (a) be a correctional A/HRC/19/61/Add.3 Section 24 of the Child Care and Protection Act 2004 governs the application of judgment on matters which children are deemed ―beyond control‖ herein also referred to as ‗uncontrollable‘, refers as follows: ―(Subsection 1) The parent or guardian of a child may bring the child before a juvenile court and where such parent or guardian proves to the court that he is unable to control the child, the court may make an order in respect of the child if satisfied – (a) that it is expedient so to deal with the child, and (b) that the parent or guardian understands the results which will follow from, and consents to the making of, the order.

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