Fewer children in detention but Indigenous rate falling more slowly

Australia's Indigenous children 18 times more likely to be in detention or under supervision

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Fewer children are being held in detention and subjected to community supervision orders, but the rates are dropping much more slowly for Indigenous children.

More than 5,300 children aged between 10 and 17 were in detention or under community supervision by youth justice officers last financial year, a report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare shows.