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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.
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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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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”.
The State Government is yet to decide whether to change laws to prevent children aged as young as 10 from being charged with criminal offences, as protestors gather at Victoria Square to demand reform following Federal Government inaction.
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.
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.
