Our office provides feedback and advice on issues that affect children and young people in care and detention.
Read our submissions below.
- Submission to Senate Inquiry into Australia’s youth justice and incarceration system – November 2024
- Australian National Preventive Mechanism submission to Australia’s youth justice and incarceration system senate inquiry – October 2024
- From Those Who Know: Children & Young People (Safety & Support) Bill 2024 Feedback – September 2024
- Submission on SA’s Children and Young People (Safety and Support) Bill 2024 – September 2024
- Submission on SA Alcohol and Other Drug Strategy – August 2024
- Submission to SA Home Care for Children and Young People Inquiry – June 2024
- ANZCCGA Letter to Federal Minister for Human Services: Exclusion of children and young people under 18 for leaving violence payment – May 2024
- Australian National Preventive Mechanism submission to the Committee against Torture – May 2024
- Submission on SA Draft Workforce Strategy for the Child Protection and Family Support Sector – April 2024
- From Those Who Know: Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility – April 2024
- Submission to the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility and Alternative Diversion Model Discussion Paper – April 2024
- Submission to the Inquiry into the Potential for a Human Rights Act for South Australia – March 2024
- ACCGA Open Letter: Raise the Age of Criminal Responsibility – November 2023
- Submission to the Royal Commission into Early Childhood Education and Care – May 2023
- Australian National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) report to Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture – 2022
- A rights-based approach to safety – Five-Year Review of the Children and Young People (Safety) Act 2017 – November 2022
- Guidelines on the Legal Representation of Children in the Youth Court (Care and Protection) Jurisdiction – May 2022
- Training Centre Visitor Comments on the 2021 Draft OPCAT Implementation Bill – June 2021
- Feedback on the Draft Model of Care for Phase 1 of Youth Treatment Orders – December 2020
- Submission for the review of the Children and Young People (Safety) Act 2017 – October 2020 – October 2020
- Feedback on the Safeguarding Task Force Report – September 2020
- Submission for SAPOL’s Disability Access and Inclusion Plan 2020-2024 – June 2020
- Promoting and protecting the wellbeing of children and young people during and after the COVID19 pandemic (ANZCCG letter to the Federal Minister for Health) – June 2020
- Submission to the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability– April 2020
- Feedback on the Criminal Law Consolidation (Throwing Objects at Vehicles) Amendment Bill 2020 – April 2020
- Feedback on the draft Education and Children’s Services Regulations 2020 – April 2020
- Council of Attorneys-General – Age of Criminal Responsibility Working Group review – February 2020
Subscribe to our weekly blog
Subscribe to our blog and receive weekly updates on current issues and news affecting children and young people in care and detention.