Indigenous kids nine times more likely to be in custody than non-Indigenous children in Victoria
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Young people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds in Victoria are nine times more likely to be in custody than their non-Indigenous peers, a new federal government report shows.
They are also more than 10 times more likely to be in community-based supervision, and the rate of Aboriginal children being placed in out-of-home care is 19 times the rate for non-Aboriginal children.
Thousands marched the streets of Melbourne in June last year to protest Indigenous deaths in custody.
Credit:Christopher Hopkins
The statistics were contained in the Productivity Commission s Report on Government Services released on Wednesday, which outlined the extent to which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children continue to be over-represented in the Victorian youth justice and child protection systems.