Join Team Youthlaw and run, walk or roll for a great cause.
Race day is 30 July 2017 and we invite you, your family and friends to enter Run Melbourne and support Youthlaw.
Why get involved?
Whether you join the team or donate, you will have a lasting impact on Victoria’s most vulnerable young people.
This weekend one of our lawyers, James, is launching himself and his home-built-flying-machine off of a four metre platform into the Yarra River.
We’d love for you to get behind James and Youthlaw and donate to back his superhuman efforts and support us!
Today the Victorian gov’t announced moving youth justice including youth detention facilities under the control of Corrections Victoria. This is before their own review is complete and before others are handed down. This move if unchecked will quickly pave the way for dismantling a differentiated response to juvenile offending.
Recent media coverage about an internal secret report (March 2016 ) to Government about the youth detention system is a missed opportunity for public debate .
Sadly, it has largely generated hysteria about a ‘crisis’ in the youth detention system and fuelled the political football match between two old rivals: ‘Tough on Crime’ and that perennial underdog ‘Youth detention system is failing.’
