Key information
- The Youth Justice Diversionary Services Framework will support children and young people to be supported by diversionary services that:
- meet their needs
- are evidence-informed
- culturally safe and
- regularly monitored and reviewed.
- Read the Youth Justice Diversionary Services Framework (PDF, 2.4MB) or the Youth Justice Diversionary Services Framework Summary on a page (PDF, 118KB).
Diversionary Services Framework
The Diversionary Services Framework plays a central role in reforming Tasmania’s youth justice system by strengthening children and young people’s access to therapeutic diversionary services for children and young people.
The Diversionary Services Framework centres the need for evidence-informed and therapeutic practice, cultural safety, monitoring and evaluation, and the priority areas for diversionary services.
Diversionary services refer to services that help reduce children and young people’s offending. This is achieved by addressing their unmet needs and strengthening their engagement with education, training and employment.
These services promote better long-term outcomes and reduce the likelihood of future involvement in the youth justice system.
The cohorts or domains that are priority areas for the delivery of new diversionary services are:
- Aboriginal children and young people
- Housing
- Mental health
- Children and young people aged 10-13 years
- Children and young people with disability
- Alcohol and other drug use
- Repeat offending and intergenerational offending
- Harmful sexual behaviours
- Children and young people in Out of Home Care
Through the Diversionary Services Framework, we’re working towards the outcomes of the Youth Justice Blueprint 2024 – 2034 (PDF, 1MB), to provide diversion that is early and lasting and keeps children and young people out of the youth justice system.
It also contributes to the implementation of the recommendations from the Commission of Inquiry into the Tasmanian Government’s Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Institutional Settings, specifically recommendation 12.13.
Youth Justice Diversionary Services Framework Implementation Plan
The Youth Justice Diversionary Services Framework Implementation Plan (PDF, 492KB), (Framework Implementation Plan) details how the Diversionary Services Framework will be rolled out across new and existing diversionary services and processes.