Summary
In the light of changes to the ways in which community services in Australia are structured and delivered and the need for more reliable and comparable data about their provision, there have been significant moves in recent years towards developing key national information issues and priorities in regard to community services.
A National Community Services Information Agreement, signed by the Commonwealth, State and Territory community services authorities (excluding Western Australia), the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), came into effect in March 1997. It covered aged care, disability services, children’s services, child protection services, juvenile justice and emergency relief services (AIHW 1997).
Preliminary material: Title and verso pages; Contents; List of tables; Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
- Methodology
- Scope of the paper
- Organisation of the paper
2. Trends in juvenile justice
- Introduction
- Models of juvenile justice
3. Juvenile justice systems
- Key elements
- Administrative location of juvenile justice systems
- Population and size
- Sex
- Age scope
- Juvenile justice data collections
4. Youth welfare
- Scope of youth welfare
- Young people and child protection systems
5. Issues in the relationship between the juvenile justice and youth welfare systems
- Introduction
- Commonwealth and State responsibilities
- Links between the justice and welfare systems
- Effectiveness of links between systems
- 'Drift' to juvenile justice systems
- Service overlap
- Welfare, justice and young women
- Cultural background and ethnicity
- Young people on care and protection orders and justice orders
- Data on young people on protective and justice orders
6. Programs and services
- Young people in detention
- Young people on orders in the community
7. State and Territory summaries
- New South Wales
- Victoria
- Queensland
- Western Australia
- South Australia
- Tasmania
- Australian Capital Territory
- Northern Territory
End matter: Abbreviations; References