While the draft plan represents a major shift for youth justice and lays out the steps forward, it doesn’t solve Tasmania’s current youth justice failings.
Today we recognise the pain and honour the courage of all survivors of sexual assault and institutional abuse.
Joining us in Parliament, out on the lawns, over at Elizabeth St Pier & on screens across the country, are Tasmanians - victim survivors & people who love them.
Last sitting we asked you about senior managers who made admissions at the commission of inquiry yet remain in their roles.
Yesterday we asked what action you have taken about the shocking failures of multiple LGH managers in relation to child sex abuse.
The commission of inquiry has heard harrowing testimony of how children were harmed at the Launceston General Hospital and other institutions.
Many of the kids ending up in Ashley have trauma, complex mental health issues, disability.
With the backdrop of the Commission of Inquiry, this National Child Protection Week is a particularly sombre one in Tasmania
We have been concerned this week and have questioned the minister about the time line for the closure. It is meant to be in two years time.
There are multiple grave allegations about current staff that got a 'business as usual' response from the former Department of Communities.