ANALYSIS: One simple thing to tackle youth crime (and five harder things), according to those who should know
Veteran youth advocate Lindsay Wegener, currently the executive director of Peak Care, but also a former director of youth detention centres, says social media companies need to stop allowing children to post videos and photos of themselves committing crimes.
For Indigenous students, retention rates are poor — 64.8 per cent in years 10 to 12 in 2020, down from 69.7 per cent in 2019.Teachers are invaluable in identifying the students who are disengaging and could be given extra training to identify various issues relating to health and wellbeing. Building detention centres is a very expensive business. A 2019 business case for a proposed 32-bed detention centre at Wacol estimated construction would cost $161 million.
He says children picked up by police should be taken to an assessment centre, where a care plan is devised and overseen by a magistrate.
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