How are Convention rights reflected in the daily programs in place in detention facilities for children?
Conventions rights are being flagrantly violated given the following: • Children wear identity tags with a number and respond when addressed by that number; • Children live with their families in flat army-style barracks with little or no privacy; • Life is regimented for detained children. Random head counts occur at any time of the day or night, when the siren calls to muster. • Education focuses on English language classes, and English-speaking detainees often teach the material. Other subjects receive little attention. Attendance is not compulsory, and there is no formal curriculum with approval from the Education Department. This means that education is effectively interrupted for the duration of detention. • Media have reported a case of two children, aged six and eleven -who were locked in solitary confinement with their mother with no toilet facilities but a supermarket plastic bag. • A child with physical and intellectual disabilities who is detained in the Curtin Detention ce
