What is really going on with Youth Crime?
Youth Crime has long been a hot button topic in the news cycle. There is fear mongering, sensationalism and general misrepresentation of statistics to paint the picture of a country in crisis, with youth running wild and making us unsafe in our homes.
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.
The Victorian Youth Justice Bill 2024 will be presented to the upper house in Vic. Parliament during the next few weeks
We support the Youth Justice Bill. We regard it as a very important opportunity for significant change to youth justice in Victoria.
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.
