Find youth justice resources including factsheets, brochures, forms, strategies and plans, service and program information, and youth detention policies.
Factsheets
Youth justice
- Youth justice: key information fact sheet (PDF, 380KB)
- Sentence options – Youth Justice Act 1992 (PDF, 520KB) or (DOCX, 466KB)
- Electronic monitoring trial (PDF, 339KB) or (DOCX, 219KB)
- Youth Justice and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2021 (PDF, 497KB) or (DOCX, 462KB)
- New services to support 2021 Youth Justice Act amendments (PDF, 459KB) or (DOCX, 458KB)
Youth detention
- Youth detention – information for parents and carers (PDF, 93KB) or (DOCX, 82KB)
- Information for professional visitors to youth detention centres (PDF, 284KB) or (DOCX, 279KB)
- Contacting a young person in a youth detention centre (PDF, 87KB) or (DOCX, 81KB)
- COVID-19 information for parents and carers (PDF, 140KB) or (DOCX, 146KB) (of young people in youth detention centres)
- COVID-19 visitor information (easy English) (PDF, 630KB) or (DOCX, 640KB)
- COVID-19 professional visitor information (PDF, 80KB) or (DOCX, 459KB)
Brochures
Youth justice
- The role of Youth Justice in Childrens Court proceedings (PDF, 322KB) or (DOCX, 321KB)
- A guide to youth sentences (PDF, 220KB) or (DOCX, 187KB)
- Bail and bail with conditions (DOCX, 319KB)
- Childrens Court (PDF, 363KB) or (DOCX, 994KB)
- Community service orders (PDF, 356KB) or (DOCX, 320KB)
- Community service orders – Information for agencies and providers of community service (PDF, 313KB) or (DOCX, 320KB)
- Conditional release orders (PDF, 353KB) or (DOCX, 320KB)
- Detention orders (PDF, 104KB) or (DOCX, 185KB)
- Graffiti removal orders (PDF, 363KB) or (DOCX, 320KB)
- Police referral – graffiti removal program (PDF, 355KB) or (DOCX, 319KB)
- Intensive supervision orders (PDF, 354KB) or (DOCX, 324KB)
- Probation orders (PDF, 354KB) or (DOCX, 325KB)
- Pre-sentence reports (DOCX, 322KB)
- Supervised release orders (PDF, 356KB) or (DOCX, 321KB)
Easy English
- Community service order – Easy English (PDF, 304KB) or (DOCX, 510KB)
- Conditional release order – Easy English (PDF, 778KB) or (DOCX, 1.1MB)
- Graffiti removal order – Easy English (PDF, 362KB) or (DOCX, 517KB)
- Graffiti removal program – police referral – Easy English (PDF, 252KB) or (DOCX, 389KB)
- Intensive supervision order – Easy English (PDF, 720KB) or (DOCX, 1MB)
- Probation order – Easy English (PDF, 247KB) or (DOCX, 385KB)
- Pre-sentence reports – Easy English (PDF, 328KB)
- Supervised release order – Easy English (PDF, 311KB) or (DOCX, 492KB)
- Youth justice sentence orders – Easy English (PDF, 488KB) or (DOC, 731KB)
Forms
Forms
- Application for victim eligible person's register (PDF, 122KB) or (DOCX, 76KB)
- Complaint by a person external to a youth detention centre COM2 (PDF, 77KB) or (DOCX, 506KB)
- Information sharing and service coordination for children charged with offences – consent form (PDF, 135KB) or (DOCX, 49KB)
- Information sharing and service coordination for children charged with offences – consent form (easy English) (PDF, 286KB) or (DOCX, 314KB)
- Information sharing and service coordination for children charged with offences – disclosure notice (PDF, 124 KB) or (DOCX, 54KB)
- Information sharing and service coordination for children charged with offences – dispute resolution notice (PDF, 45KB) or (DOCX, 42KB)
- Information sharing and service coordination for children charged with offences – request notice (PDF, 111KB) or (DOCX, 46KB)
Strategies and plans
Strategies and plans
Current
- A Safer Queensland – Queensland Youth Justice Strategy 2024–2028 (PDF, 5.3MB)
- Youth Justice Strategic Plan 2023–2027 (PDF, 213KB)
- Equity and Diversity Plan 2024–2025 (PDF, 470KB)
- Disability Service Plan 2023-2025 (PDF, 632KB)
- Come together, talk together, walk together: Reframing the relationship plan for 2023–2025 (PDF, 503KB) | (DOC, 1.89MB).
- Queensland Multicultural Action Plan (PDF, 3.4MB)
Superseded
Service and program information
Policies
Youth detention
- YD-1-1 Youth detention – Casework (PDF, 150KB) or (DOCX, 92KB)
- YD-1-2 Youth detention – Behaviour support (PDF, 778KB) or (DOCX, 664KB)
- YD-1-3 Youth detention – Daily routine, education and program delivery (PDF, 195KB) or (DOCX, 114KB)
- YD-1-5 Youth detention – Provision of medical and other health services (PDF, 196KB) or (DOCX, 105KB)
- YD-1-7 Youth detention – Food provision and nutrition services (PDF, 122KB) or (DOCX, 92KB)
- YD-1-8 Youth detention – Visits to young people (PDF, 138KB) or (DOCX, 107KB)
- YD-1-9 Youth detention – Complaints management (PDF, 197KB) or (DOCX, 107KB)
- YD-1-10 Youth detention – Complaints to external agencies (PDF, 173KB) or (DOCX, 97KB)
- YD-1-12 Youth detention – Interactions between young people (PDF, 128KB) or (DOCX, 108KB)
- YD-1-13 Youth detention – Administration of trust accounts for young people (PDF, 127KB) or (DOCX, 88KB)
- YD-1-14 Youth detention – Accommodating a child with their parent in youth detention (PDF, 183KB) or (DOCX, 346KB)
- YD-1-15 Youth detention – Independent living unit (PDF, 133KB) or (DOCX, 97KB)
- YD-1-16 Youth detention – Restorative practice (PDF, 229KB) or (DOCX, 227KB)
- YD-2-1 Youth detention – Admission of a young person (PDF, 155KB) or (DOCX, 367KB)
- YD-2-2 Youth detention – Leave of absence (PDF, 576KB) or (DOCX, 542KB)
- YD-2-3 Youth detention – Transfers to adult corrective services facilities (PDF, 331KB) or (DOCX, 354KB)
- YD-2-4 Youth detention – Release of a young person (PDF, 114KB) or (DOCX, 94KB)
- YD-3-9 Youth detention – Identifying and reporting harm in a youth detention centre (PDF, 432KB) or (DOCX, 354KB)