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Children in state care are voluntarily choosing to stay in prison because they feel fearful and unsafe at residential care facilities, South Australia’s guardian for children has revealed.
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UPDATED: A child aged under 12 was illegally isolated in a cell while detained at the Adelaide Youth Training Centre, the state’s watchdog has revealed, amid concerns staff restrain children face down on the floor and film them using the toilet.
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The State Government is “on the face of it” breaching core international human rights protections by detaining children while they are on remand, South Australia’s child detention watchdog has warned, amid concerns that children as young as 10 are being filmed while in the shower.
Health Minister Stephen Wade will today propose a suite of changes to a SA Government Bill to enforce mandatory drug treatment on young people, following criticism the proposed legislation would breach several of Australia’s human rights obligations.
Children won’t be sent to youth detention centres under a SA Government plan to enforce mandatory drug treatment on young people, the Health Minister says, but advocates are still concerned about the proposed legislation.
The head of South Australia’s peak Aboriginal health body has warned that a State Government plan to enforce mandatory drug treatment on young people risks dispossessing Aboriginal children of their culture.
A group of interstate human rights lawyers say a South Australian Government plan to enforce mandatory drug treatment on children would breach several of Australia’s human rights obligations.
