Victorian Current Acts

YOUTH JUSTICE ACT 2024 - SECT 22

    (1)     Public service bodies, public entities, Victoria Police, non-government organisations and the community have a shared responsibility to—

        (a)     support children and young persons to rehabilitate, positively develop and not offend; and

        (b)     prevent children and young persons from having contact with the youth justice system; and

        (c)     divert children and young persons from the youth justice system, to the greatest extent possible.

    (2)     Public service bodies, public entities, Victoria Police, non-government organisations and the community are to—

        (a)     work together in partnership in recognition of the shared responsibility referred to in subsection (1); and

        (b)     engage, collaborate and cooperate with each other to acquit this shared responsibility.

Division 3—Guiding youth justice principles and matters specific to Aboriginal children and young persons