Corrective Services

HON ALISON XAMON (North Metropolitan) [ 5.36 pm ]: I rise because I want to recognise that this Saturday, 9 September, is International FASD Awareness Day. It is held on the ninth day of the ninth month every year. The date was chosen to highlight the importance of the nine months of pregnancy. International FASD Awareness Day was first held in 1999, so awareness of the existence and cause of FASD has increased significantly since that time. For members who do not know what FASD is, it stands for foetal alcohol spectrum disorder.

178. Hon Alison Xamon to the minister representing the Minister for Corrective Services:

I refer to the review of the Young Offenders Act 1994 initiated by the Department of Corrective Services in December 2016, and I ask:

(a) could the Minister please advise the current status of the review;

(b) when is it anticipated the review will be finalised; and

(c) when is it anticipated the findings of the review will be made public?

Hon Stephen Dawson replied: