QATSICPP submission to Community Safety Bill 2024
The Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Protection Peak (QATSICPP) is the newly announced youth justice peak body for Queensland. As Queensland’s Youth Justice peak, along with our 38 members and strategic partnerships, we will focus on creating safer communities by building strengthened partnerships with government, service providers and community organisations. QATSICPP’s work in both the child protection sector and in youth justice aims to support the government and key partners to create safer communities through advocating for new approaches and programs that can change the life trajectory of children, young people and families who interact with justice systems.
This week QATSICPP made a submission to the Queensland Parliamentary Inquiry into the Community Safety Bill 2024. QATSICPP supports the Bill’s intent to keep communities safe and reduce the recidivism rates of serious repeat offenders but we remain deeply concerned about the ongoing detention of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, especially in harmful environments like adult watch houses. You can read our submission here.
QATSICPP looks forward to highlighting the voices of our members and communities in the next stage of the Inquiry process.
