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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.
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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”.
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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”.
South Australia’s Guardian for children in state care is once again calling on the Government to provide funding so that she can monitor all allegations of sexual abuse, following the release of a damning report into the Child Protection Department’s reporting protocols.
South Australia’s youth justice watchdog has called on the State Government to immediately lift the minimum age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14 years, after Australia was questioned on the matter by the United Nation’s human rights council.
The State Government is at risk of breaching human rights standards that ban medical experimentation on prisoners if it goes ahead with its plan to trial mandatory drug addiction treatment on detained children, South Australia’s Youth Training Centre Visitor has cautioned.
South Australian children in youth detention will likely be the first in the country to be forced against their will to receive treatment for drug dependency, despite the State Government conceding there is “limited evidence” that the controversial program will work.
