❓ Question regarding the detention of children under 14 in WA during 2020, including numbers detained, convictions, charges, and longest detention without conviction. The answer provides specific figures.
AnsweredQoN 138Legislative Council
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I refer to the detention of
children less than 14 years of age in the calendar year 2020, and I ask: (a) how
many such children were detained; (b) how many such children were serving a period of
detention arising from a sentence following a conviction; (c) further to (b), what were the charges that
resulted in the conviction and consequential sentence; and (d) what was the longest continuous period of time
that such a child was detained without a conviction?
children less than 14 years of age in the calendar year 2020, and I ask: (a) how
many such children were detained; (b) how many such children were serving a period of
detention arising from a sentence following a conviction; (c) further to (b), what were the charges that
resulted in the conviction and consequential sentence; and (d) what was the longest continuous period of time
that such a child was detained without a conviction?
AnswerView source ↗
Answered
22 June 2021
Responded by
Minister for Regional Development representing the Minister for Corrective Services
Response time
9 days
(a) 108
(b) 5
(c) Burglary and robbery offences.
(d) 121 days
(b) 5
(c) Burglary and robbery offences.
(d) 121 days
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