3 October, 2017
The Adelaide Youth Training Centre (AYTC) is housed on two campuses in Cavan, north of the Grand Junction road. One campus caters for female residents, younger male residents and young people in overnight remand and the other houses older male residents.
In 2016-17 there were 887 total admissions accounting for 388 individual young people1 of whom half or more were in remand awaiting trial.
Of the 388 young people admitted, at the time of first admission:
- 23.2 % were young women
- 21.9% were under guardianship orders
- 48.5% were of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent2
The age distribution of the young people at the time of admission was:
On an average day in 2016-17 there were 49.07 young people housed in the Centre. This compares with highest daily occupancy since the Magill and Cavan Centres were amalgamated of 61.06 in 2012-13 and the lowest of 47.89 in 2014-15.
1 Some young people are remanded on several occasions or serve several custodial sentences in one 12 month period.
2 The proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait young people in the average daily population in of the AYTC in 2016-17 was 62.42% suggesting that their average stay was longer than non-Indigenous residents.
