She said the NT government's Vita review – another examination of juvenile justice – had been completed and was currently under review.
The corrections department accepted the recommendations made in the report, but commissioner Middlebrook also noted the department was working towards recommendations from the Vita review.
Background information provided to Scullion included details from that report, as well as media articles, police statements, and the Vita review into juvenile detention in the Northern Territory.
Using Western Australia as a model, the Vita review found diversionary measures could reduce costs by more than 10%, not including benefits to the community through behavioural changes.
Elferink said the government had agreed to implement all but one of the children's commissioner's recommendations, because they were "broadly in line" with those made by the government-commissioned Vita Review.
Vita's review, released in February, found a system in "a climate of daily crisis" with a lack of adequate training among the largely casual staff, "nonexistent, outdated and inadequate" detention practices, and little consistency.
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The letter, along with a copy of Ms. Black's university grades and a curriculum vitae, will be reviewed by the state education commissioner, David M. Steiner, who took office in 2009.
A recently published review (Vita et al. 2015) of the association between lithium in drinking water and suicide rates supports the association between higher levels of lithium in drinking water and a reduced risk of suicide in the general population.
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