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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.
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A group of drug, mental health, human rights and child protection experts have called on the State Government to delay trialling a contentious drug treatment program on detained children following warnings it could breach human rights standards.
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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.
Young South Australian offenders will be offered more support to stay out of prison under a privatised community service program, the State Government says, despite conceding it has cut $400,000 from the program’s funding.
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.
South Australian primary school-aged children – some as young as 10-years-old – were incarcerated 133 times over the past year.
SA children aged as young as 10 will continue to be arrested, charged and detained for at least another year after a national meeting decided to put off a decision to lift the criminal age, with Attorney-General Vickie Chapman unwilling to take action before a federal consensus is reached.
