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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.
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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.
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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.
Over 180 children in state care were victims or at risk of alleged sexual assault last year, the Guardian for Children has revealed, amid concerns there are “serious systemic gaps and failings” in the Child Protection Department’s detection of abuse.
South Australian primary school-aged children – some as young as 10-years-old – were incarcerated 133 times over the past year.
The Child Protection Department has stopped housing at-risk children in what advocates have described as the most unsafe and least therapeutic forms of care, but concerns remain about the welfare of children who might “languish” under the replacement system.
