Youth Advocacy Centre loses 20-year government funding contract, 19 staff axed
Queensland ended the Youth Advocacy Centre's 20-year contract, cutting 19 bail support jobs.
The Brisbane-based Youth Advocacy Centre offers bail support to young people. The Youth Advocacy Centre lost funding under the Queensland Youth Justice department's shake-up.
YAC had a multi-year contract cut short in July and has been on rolling short-term contracts since. Katherine Hayes, who runs the organisation, says the program was independently reviewed and found to cut crime rates.
The government said the program was not renewed because it wasn't meeting youth bail compliance targets. The centre had run government-funded bail support work for 20 years.
- 20 years
- Government funding duration
- 19 frontline workers
- Jobs lost
- 60 per cent
- Reoffending rate under previous programs
- Nouse Group
- Independent review firm
Why it mattersA program that reduced crime has been defunded, leaving young people without needed court support.
AustraliaQueensland youth bail support services are now fragmented, potentially affecting how young people manage conditions of release in the state's courts.
Corroborated bytheage.com.au·watoday.com.au
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