Calling for an end to child solitary confinement.

Solitary confinement remains routine in NSW youth justice centres, with hundreds of children isolated each year, some for over 24 hours.

Solitary confinement is widespread in QLD’s youth detention system. Hundreds of children have been locked alone for weeks or months, and often for mere administrative reasons.

Victoria is the only state that has taken a legal step toward ending child solitary confinement - but the work is far from over. There is still no national standard to protect children.

Children in SA are being locked in cells for up to 23 hours at a time. Staff shortages and week safeguards mean isolation is happening more often than the law intends.

Solitary confinement is still legal in WA despite courts having found it to be unlawful. Children are still being locked and isolated for weeks at a time with no sign of a statewide ban.

Children in Tasmania are still being locked in cells for up to 23 hours a day. Despite a national inquiry findings this was a serious violation of their human rights, the system remains unchanged.