What is a family group conference?
A meeting for the young person, their family/whanau and the victim. There are two sorts of family group conference (sometimes called an FGC): • when the police are deciding whether to charge the young person with breaking the law if the people at the conference think the person shouldn’t be charged (or go to court), they’ll decide what the young person will have to do to make up for their offending. This is often called an “intention to charge” family group conference. and • after the young person has appeared in the Youth Court to work out what they did, why they did it, what they can do to make up for their offending and how to make sure they don’t get into trouble again. This kind of family group conference is held if the young person agrees that they broke the law or it has been proved that the young person broke the law.
