Dual child protection and youth justice clients: expanding the evidence base

该项目调查儿童从法定的儿童保护系统过渡到青年司法系统的现象。分析将从儿童法院档案和国际政策中提取数据。它期望产生关于交叉儿童的特征和轨迹的新知识，并提高对这一群体与只涉及儿童保护或青年司法系统的儿童有何不同的理解。调查结果将为预防和应对儿童从儿童保护转向青年司法系统的新的有效方法提供信息，这将改善青年人和更广泛社区的社会和经济成果。

This project investigates the phenomenon of children who cross over from statutory child protection systems into youth justice systems. The analysis will be draw data from Children’s Court files and international policy. It expects to generate new knowledge regarding the characteristics and trajectories of crossover children, and to improve understandings of how this group differs from children only involved with child protection or youth justice systems. The findings will inform novel and effective approaches to preventing and responding to the drift of children from child protection into youth justice systems which will improve social and economic outcomes for young people and the broader community.