Information provided to us through right to information states that at 31 March this year, 2105 students were waiting to see a school psychologist.
Children continue to be held in adult prison watch houses despite a clear recommendation from the Custodial Inspector last year
In June last year, the Custodial Inspector released the children in Tasmania's prisons review report.
These are children who are primary school, first year of high school, kept in an adult facility.
As we see this government being tough on crime, as they call it, this is the complete opposite of what we need to be doing for young people.
The children who are your portfolio and policy responsibility, are ending up in the Corrections minister's areas of portfolio and responsibility.
It took a right to information to find out that, shockingly, children were held in adult prison watch houses on 306 occasions in 2025-26.
An RTI obtained by the Greens has revealed children were detained in adult prison watch houses more than 300 times in the last financial year.
The Minister for Children and Young People has not progressed much-needed reforms to protect children in adult prisons.
Has the Independent Regulator asked that provisions that capture Tasmania Police for the purposes of the Child and Youth Safe Organisations Framework be applied retrospectively?
