Calls for more Aboriginal inmate support

Guards at Victoria’s youth detention facilities receive just half-an-hour of Aboriginal cultural training, which isn’t good enough, a new report says.

There are also only four Aboriginal liaison officers available to young detainees even thought Koori young people are over-represented in custody, the report by the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission and the Commission for Children and Young People says.

Report authors were told new youth justice centre secure services staff receive 30 minutes of cultural competency training “that primarily deals with the procedural knowledge necessary in their roles”.