Children and Youth

DISABILITY — YOUNG PEOPLE RESIDING IN AGED-CARE FACILITIES

823. Hon ALISON XAMON to the Minister for Disability Services:

I refer to a question without notice about young people with disabilities housed in aged-care facilities

(1)  Is the Disability Services Commission implementing measures to identify those young people and connect them to the National Disability Insurance Scheme?

(2)  If no to (1), why not?

(3)  If yes to (1), what are those measures?

WA children should not be imprisoned over lack of accommodation

Children should not be imprisoned at Banksia Hill Detention Centre because they do not have suitable homes to go to, Greens spokesperson for Child Protection Hon Alison Xamon MLC has said today.

Hon Xamon revealed through Questions in Parliament that on 9 October, there were three children being held at Banksia Hill Detention Centre who qualified to be released on bail.

The Government admitted the children remained there because no suitable accommodation was available.

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