Submission: Inquiry into Australia's youth justice and incarceration system
Explore the Commission's submission on youth justice and incarceration in Australia, addressing rights and reforms for young people in detention.
Summary
The Australian Human Rights Commission has made a submission to the Parliamentary Committee that is looking at Australia's youth justice and incarceration system.
Submission: Inquiry into Australia's youth justice and incarceration system
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The Australian Human Rights Commission (Commission) makes this submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs (Committee) in relation to its inquiry into the Australia's youth justice and incarceration system.
This submission draws on the recently released Commission report, ‘Help way earlier!': How Australia can transform child justice to improve safety and wellbeing (‘Help way earlier!').
‘Help way earlier!' investigates opportunities for reform of child justice and related systems across Australia, based on evidence and the protection of human rights. It is the result of a project undertaken by the National Children's Commissioner (NCC) in 2023–24. The project included a submissions process, consultations with children and young people, families and community members, and interviews and roundtables with government and non-government stakeholders across Australia.
The Commission recommends that the Committee endorses the 24 recommendations made in the ‘Help Way Earlier!' report which provide an evidence base for how Australia can transform child justice to improve the safety and wellbeing of Australia's children.
For more detail than provided in this submission, please see the full report and associated resources on the Commission website.