This morning, the Governor of NSW appointed Ms Rachael Ward as the Acting Children\u2019s Guardian while a Special Ministerial Inquiry is conducted into the Office of the Children\u2019s Guardian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr Steve Kinmond, who commenced as Children\u2019s Guardian in January 2023, has agreed to step aside from that role for the duration of the Inquiry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ms Ward has more than 23 years\u2019 experience specialising in child protection law and is a member of the Children\u2019s Court Advisory Committee. She has, most recently, served as Director of Child Law within the Department of Communities and Justice. I am confident Ms Ward\u2019s knowledge and experience will be an asset to the Office of the Children\u2019s Guardian during this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This morning, the Governor of NSW appointed Ms Rachael Ward as the Acting Children\u2019s Guardian while a Special Ministerial Inquiry is conducted into the Office of the Children\u2019s Guardian. Mr Steve Kinmond, who commenced as Children\u2019s Guardian in January 2023, has agreed to step aside from that role for the duration of the Inquiry. Ms … Continue reading “Acting Children\u2019s Guardian appointed”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31699,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31698\/revisions\/31699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}