WA's top child advocate watched in horror as the government referenced her 'glowing' assessment of the youth detention centre where a teenager died, and was devastated her observations were taken 'out of context'.
Children's Commissioner Jacqueline McGowan-Jones claims Corrective Services Minister Paul Papalia took her words out of context on Banksia HillChildren's Commissioner Jacqueline McGowan-Jones claims Corrective Services Minister Paul Papalia took her words out of context on Banksia HillThe day after a teenager took his own life in Banksia Hill Detention Centre , Corrective Services Minister Paul Papalia said WA's top child advocate had given the facility a "glowing report".
His death came just 10 months after Indigenous boy Cleveland Dodd fatally self-harmed inside his cell in WA's notorious Unit 18 youth detention wing. "The commissioner for children and young people was in Banksia Hill this week and gave a glowing report verbally to the commissioner." "Nonetheless, what we see are more fences, more barbed wire, and instead of programs that are individually focused on an individual child's need, they are whole-of-cohort approaches.
WA's uniqueness is normally for the best, but in the area of youth justice it's a serious shortcoming
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