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Please note: The CYPS Complaints Unit include a list of contacts for escalation of concerns with each complaint response. A copy of this list is included at Attachment A.

Alternative avenues for pursuing concerns regarding services provided

by Child and Youth Protection Services

Quality, Complaints and Regulation

The Quality, Complaints and Regulation Unit within the Community Services Directorate provides an independent complaints resolution service, or review function, for the Director-General.

To contact them please email Quality@act.gov.au or on 6207 5474.

Office of the Public Advocate (ACT)

The Public Advocate represents the rights of people who are not able to represent themselves.

Further information can be obtained at www.publicadvocate.act.gov.au or on 6207 0707.

The Commissioner for Children and Young People

The Commissioner for Children and Young People can help resolve complaints about services for Children and Young People.

Further information can be obtained from www.hrc.gov.au or on 6205 2222.

Children and young people—youth justice
(Question No 451)

Mrs Kikkert asked the Minister for Disability, Children and Youth, upon notice, on 4 August 2017:

(1) What was the rate of recidivism of sentenced young people in custody in the ACT for (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13, (d) 2013-14, (e) 2014-15, (f) 2015-16 and (g) 2016-17.

(2) What was the rate of recidivism of sentenced young people on community-based orders in the ACT for (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13, (d) 2013-14, (e) 2014-15, (f) 2015-16 and (g) 2016-17.

(3) What percentage of children and young people who have served a custodial sentence at Bimberi Youth Justice Centre have gone on to serve a custodial sentence at the Alexander Maconochie Centre (AMC), since its opening in 2008.

(4) What percentage of children and young people detained at Bimberi Youth Justice Centre have gone on to serve a custodial sentence at any other adult correctional facility in Australia, since its opening in 2008.

(5) How many (expressed as a ratio) of those serving custodial sentences in the AMC had previously served a custodial sentence at Bimberi for (a) 2010–11, (b) 2011–12, (c) 2012–13, (d) 2013–14, (e) 2014–15, (f) 2015–16 and (g) 2016–17.


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