Examples of Youth Justice in a sentence
Reports are made to the Queensland Police Service in relation to allegations or reasonable suspicions of sexual abuse/likely sexual abuse of a student or to the Department of Children, Youth Justice and Multicultural Affairs for harm/risk of harm to a student caused by sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse or neglect where a parent is not able and willing to act protectively.
Sometimes Youth Justice may request an adjournment for the assessment to be completed.
Assessment process: The Youth Justice Bail Service assesses the young person’s risk and protective factors that may impact on his/her ability to meet bail requirements.
In the majority of cases where the court sets a bail condition that a young person is to participate in the Youth Justice Bail Support Service, this will be Supervised Bail.
Youth Justice monitors the young person’s compliance and participation with the requirements of the Bail program and notifies police about non-compliance with bail conditions.
Information is collected on factors such as personal circumstances, previous offending, risks relating to non-compliance, needs and responsivity issues, risks to community safety, vulnerability on remand and the person’s attitude and willingness to engage with Youth Justice.
This program is targeted at young people who have had no previous contact with Youth Justice and are charged with a serious offence or who have been on supervised bail previously and have responded well.
Youth Justice will aim to undertake this assessment on the same day as the request which is usually the day the young person attends his/her bail hearing.
Following on the perceived success of this pilot program Youth Justice now provides two separate bail programs – Supervised Bail and Intensive Bail – for young persons who can meet their bail requirements with assistance but without assistance might otherwise be remanded in a youth remand centre.
Youth Justice can also provide advice where a young person has some identified risk factors for bail compliance but these can be mitigated without a bail condition requiring participation in a Youth Justice Bail Service.