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The government recently announced that there will be an inquiry into Australia’s youth justice and incarceration system.

As an issue which impacts many of the young people that we assist.

We prepared a submission for the Committee to consider which covers the impacts of recent changes we’ve seen (both positive and negative), issues we see on the ground, and our asks of the Committee.

We are repeating the past harm and horror of treatment of children in institutional care, today.

Nowhere is this more apparent than with respect to Aboriginal children.

As we talk about truth telling, but as the State Government stalls on accepting and implementing all recommendations of the Yoorook Commission of Inquiry into child protection and the criminal justice system, Aboriginal children are being removed from their family at alarming rates.

Youthlaw, as a co-convener of Smart Justice for Young People and proud to support the launch of ‘Working Together‘,  Smart Justice for Young Peoples’s Action Plan to End the Over-Representation of Particular Youth Cohorts in the Criminal Justice System.

Some information about Working Together from the Smart Justice for Young People team;

Working Together is for all decision makers working with young people aged 10-25 across government and the government funded community sector.