The Change the Record -Community is Everything Forum, was organised as part of Reconciliation Week at the ANU Law College.
Community and legal experts in juvenile justice discussed incarceration rates in the ACT and why community based diversionary initiatives should be supported by state and federal government.
Questions were raised about the issues that lead an Indigenous child to offending and how more support should be made to services that work on the solutions before the risk of incarceration.
Law lecturer Mary Spiers Williams says it was agreed by everyone who attended the forum that even one child is too many, when it comes to the incarceration of a young person.
