commission of the offence concerned by the child or young person compensation for that damage or loss, whether the injured party makes any claim therefor or not. PART IV REMOVAL OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS TO OTHER CARE 14 Removal of children and young persons to place of safety (1) Any police officer, health officer, education officer or probation officer may remove a child or young person from any place to a place of safety— (a) if he is, in the opinion of that police officer health officer, education officer or probation officer, a child in need of care; [amended by Act 23 of 2001 ,with effect from the 18th January, 2002.] or (b) if there are reasonable grounds for believing that an offence specified in the First Schedule is being or has been committed upon or in connection with that child or young person. (2) Unless it would be impracticable or detrimental to the best interests of the child or young person concerned, a police officer, probation officer, education officer or health officer shall place a child or young person in a place of safety in terms of subsection (1) within the family or community where the child or young person was raised. (3) A police officer, education officer or health officer who has removed a child or young person to, and any person who receives a child or young person in, a place of safety in terms of subsection (1) shall notify a probation officer for the area in which the place of safety is situated of such removal or reception as soon as possible and in any event within five days of such removal or reception. [Subsections (2) and (3) inserted by Act 23 of 2001, with effect from the 18th January, 2002.] 15 Court or magistrate may authorize removal of child or young person to place of safety (1) If it appears to any court in the course of any proceedings before that court or to a magistrate, in the course of a preparatory examination that an offence specified in the First Schedule has been or is being committed upon or in connection with any child or young person, or if the parent or guardian of a child or young person is by any such court or magistrate convicted of or committed for trial for any such offence, that court or magistrate, as the case may be, may, if it or he considers it expedient, issue a warrant authorizing a police officer to search for and to take the child or young person to a place of safety. (2) If it appears to any magistrate, on information given on oath by any person, that there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that an offence specified in the First Schedule is being or has been committed upon or in connection with a child or young person who is within the area of his jurisdiction or that a child or young person is in need of care and that it is expedient that such child or young person shall be taken into a place of safety, the magistrate may issue a warrant authorizing any police officer to search for and to take the child or young person to a place of safety. (3) Any police officer acting under a warrant issued in terms of subsection (1) or (2) may enter, by force if necessary, any house or other premises wherein the child or young person who is the subject of the warrant is suspected to be and may remove such child or young person from the place where he finds him to a place of safety. (4) Any warrant issued in terms of subsection (1) or (2) may authorize any person named therein to accompany the police officer who is to execute the warrant. (5) It shall not be necessary in any warrant issued in terms of subsection (1) or (2) to state the name of the child or young person whose removal is thereby ordered. 16 Authority to detain child or young person in place of safety Any child or young person who— (a) has been taken to a place of safety in terms of this Act or who has sought refuge in a place of safety, may be detained therein: or