- Continue to pursue a trauma informed model of treatment for young people in detention.
- Investigate opportunities for small residential youth justice facilities across Western Australia to keep young people close to their families and networks, and to increase the prospects of successful rehabilitation.
- Improve clarity and communication about short term and long term strategies for Banksia Hill.
- Improve consistency in the way young people are managed.
- Deliver PSPs and CHART or alternative programs based on similar principles.
- Assess and mitigate staff concerns regarding the investigation process.
- Evaluate the use and effectiveness of the different behaviour management tools.
- Minimise the use of lockdowns for staff training and staff shortages.
- Implement an out of cell hours Key Performance Indicator for youth custodial services that matches or exceeds the adult custodial target.
- Improve record keeping practices to accurately reflect the time young people spend in cell.
- Ensure all young people have a minimum of an hour of exercise every six hours as required by the Young Offenders Regulations 1995.
- Ensure high quality audio and visual recording of Special Operations Group interventions at adult and youth custodial facilities.
- Record the reasons restraints are used on young people.
- Ensure that young females are not housed in inappropriate units.
- Cease the practice of top locks.
- Do not use dietary restrictions as a behaviour management technique.
- Evaluate the safest and most humane way to deal with young people who spit and implement any required changes.
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