Page 1464 - Week 04 - Wednesday, 6 April 2011
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process of the transition from Quamby to Bimberi. At the time the minister made the point that they were not going to advertise ahead of time when the staff and inmates would be transferred from Quamby to Bimberi, and that makes sense.
At that time Mr Coe raised the fact that we seemed to have had another sham opening, as with the opening of the AMC, and that Bimberi Youth Justice Centre had been open for two or three months and it had not been populated. Very soon after Mr Coe made those comments, in the lead-up to Christmas, the inmates were transferred to Bimberi Youth Justice Centre. Staff who worked there at the time have told me—and I have not found that this has been denied anywhere—that they turned up on a particular day at Quamby and they were told, “Today is the day that everyone is moving to Bimberi.” The trucks arrived, the transport for the youth detainees arrived and everybody moved over to Bimberi.
When they got there, most of the people had not been familiarised with the layout of the place and they had no procedures. So the staff at the time said: “Well, we don’t know what the new procedures are; we’d better continue to do what we did at Quamby.” Still, to this day, some of those staff who were there with the turnover have said to me that they have not seen new procedures for the operation of Bimberi Youth Justice Centre and they are doing essentially what they did when they worked at Quamby, because they have no other material to rely upon.
This motion today calls for information to be provided by the Minister for Children and Young People and the minister for education. It calls on both ministers to provide, by close of business tomorrow, all current policies and procedures developed by their department, as they relate to Bimberi, that are currently in force. In addition, the motion calls for a schedule setting out the time line covering the period from the drafting of those policies and procedures and all and any amendments that have been made to those policies and procedures that are currently in force.
We also ask for a schedule setting out the policies and procedures and when they were made available to staff within the department and staff at Bimberi Youth Justice Centre, and outlining the procedure by which staff, both in the department and at Bimberi Youth Justice Centre, were notified of the policies and procedures; how they were notified of any amendments, including what was done to ensure that staff were made aware of them; and that they acknowledge that there had been changes to procedures.
In addition, the motion calls for a statement setting out training that was given to staff, both in the department and at Bimberi Youth Justice Centre, in respect of the operation of those policies and procedures, and any training from time to time that would result from there being amendments. The statement should also outline whether both the Department of Disability, Housing and Community Services and the Department of Education and Training had promulgated the policies and procedures and amendments thereto to staff and had contacted staff in a timely manner; and if not, why that had not been done.
This motion is about getting information. This motion ensures that all members of this place have a clear understanding of what the policies and procedures are. There are
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