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Potential “life-saving” laws that give the Youth Court the power to detain drug-dependent children for treatment will be enforced later this year, but under a different model to what the Marshall Government promised ahead of the last state election.
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Young people detained at Adelaide’s youth justice centre have been unable to go to school or attend medical appointments while the government deals with a “significant” staffing shortage, union officials and advocates claim.
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Children in state care who end up in the youth justice system are sometimes kept in detention days after they are granted release because child protection authorities have no homes for them to go to, according to South Australia’s Guardian for Children.
A $18.7 million upgrade of South Australia’s youth detention centre is set to begin next year, with the state’s youth justice advocate saying the planned works will “go some way to meeting some pressing needs”.
Aboriginal children who are accused of committing crimes are more likely than ever before to be sent to court compared with their non-Indigenous counterparts, with the state’s youth justice watchdog saying she is “deeply concerned” by the “different treatment”.
The State Government is yet to decide whether to change laws to prevent children aged as young as 10 from being charged with criminal offences, as protestors gather at Victoria Square to demand reform following Federal Government inaction.
Children in detention will from today be able to meet with Aboriginal Elders and reflect on their offending in a new outdoor space, as part of a State Government push to curb the overrepresentation of Aboriginal youth in the justice system.
