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Triggs, Gillian --- "The impact of detention on the health, wellbeing and development of children: findings from the second National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention" [2018] ELECD 709; in Crock, Mary; Benson, B. Lenni (eds), "Protecting Migrant Children" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018) 396

Book Title: Protecting Migrant Children

Editor(s): Crock, Mary; Benson, B. Lenni

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781786430250

Section: Chapter 20

Section Title: The impact of detention on the health, wellbeing and development of children: findings from the second National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention

Author(s): Triggs, Gillian

Number of pages: 24

Abstract/Description:

Over the past decade, the Australian Human Rights Commission has conducted two National Inquiries into children in immigration detention in Australia. This chapter focuses on the second National Inquiry, conducted in 2014. The Inquiry found that prolonged detention was having profoundly negative impacts on the mental and emotional health and development of children. Following the Inquiry, all children were gradually released from closed immigration detention facilities in Australia. The Commission’s recommendation for legislative amendments to prevent prolonged detention of children in the future was not adopted.