Some six months since the last one expired, the state government is expected to unveil its new four-year youth justice strategy today. .The announcement is due to coincide with the release of a long-awaited report by the Auditor-General. Its focus? “To assess whether youth justice strategies and programs are effective in reducing crime by serious repeat offenders and improving community safety”.
The government has faced criticism for its “knee jerk” and often contradictory responses – or policy U-turns – to several high-profile incidents involving young offenders since the expiry of the old strategy and its related action plan years earlier.
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