Australian NPM Submission: Australia’s youth justice and incarcerated system

Image of corridor with cell doors at Banksia Hill Detention CentreThe Office was pleased to contribute and be signatory to the Australian National Preventive Mechanism’s (NPM) submission to the Senate inquiry examining the country’s youth justice and incarceration system.

The Submission makes six recommendations to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee and urges careful consideration of the findings and recommendation made by the National Children’s Commissioner in her 2024 report ‘Help way earlier!’: How Australia can transform child justice to improve safety and wellbeing!’.

You can read the NPM submission here.