Annamarie is available to provide Guardianship Assessment services throughout the North Coast of NSW and across other regions of Australia as per individual requirements.

Helpful Information About Guardianship Assessments:

What Is A Guardianship Assessment?
A Guardianship Assessment is a process where experts check to see if someone can be a guardian for a child who can't live with their parents.

Who Does The Guardianship Assessment?
A trained professional usually does the assessment.
This person might be a psychologist, social worker, or someone else who knows about guardianship and caring for children.

Why would someone need a Guardianship Assessment?
Sometimes, a child can't live with their parents because of problems like abuse, neglect, or other reasons.
A guardianship assessment will assess the suitability of the carers to become guardians and if this is in the child's best interest.

What Happens During A Guardianship Assessment?
The assessor talks to the person who wants to be the guardian, the children, other household members and may also speak to other people involved with the children.

What Happens After The Assessment?
The assessor will provide a report with their findings and recommendations to the agency who requested the assessment.