Residential facility

A residential facility means a place at which a child accommodation service is provided—

• by a prescribed department, or
• under funding provided by a prescribed department, or
• under funding provided by the Australian Government and administered by a prescribed department, or
• under a licence under the Child Protection Act 1999, or
• to children who are—under the Child Protection Act 1999— in the custody or guardianship of the chief executive of the department in which that Act is administered, if the place is prescribed under a regulation made for this paragraph.

A prescribed department means the departments responsible for:

• the care and protection of children, or
• community services, or
• disability services, or
• mental health.