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A mentally-ill child detained at Adelaide’s youth detention centre was locked in a room for long periods of time and handcuffed when in common areas because staff didn’t know how to provide proper care, a damning report to parliament has revealed.
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Children in state care who are arrested after committing crimes are being subjected to strip searches and placed in cells within direct view of adult offenders at the Adelaide City Watch House, South Australia’s Guardian for Children claims.
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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.
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.
Attorney-General Vickie Chapman says South Australia needs to find other ways to manage young offenders before it lifts the age of criminal responsibility, amid growing calls to stop children aged as young as 10 from being arrested and charged.
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”.
