This is ARACY’s submission to the Youth Justice and Child Wellbeing Reform Across Australia 2023
Risk factors for youth offending should be conceptualised through an ecological model and across
the life-course to facilitate a systematic approach to addressing the complex, multi-factorial
drivers of youth offending.
Children and young people are experts in their own experience and should be consulted
throughout the reform process, including the development of policies and interventions.
Youth justice reform should take a primary health approach that incorporates primary, secondary,
and tertiary prevention strategies with appropriate allocation of resources to each level of
prevention.
