This brief summary comes from Australia’s youth justice and incarceration system report, released in February 2025, highlighting serious concerns about the current youth justice system.
Given the alarming evidence presented in the interim report, alongside the critical issues highlighted in the National Children’s Commissioner’s report, Help way earlier!: How Australia can transform child justice to improve safety and wellbeing, the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee strongly urges the Senate to continue its inquiry into the incarceration of children in Australia.