Youth bail houses, built to keep children out of youth detention centres, are costing Queensland taxpayers around $2,600 a day per child.
The independent evaluation of the Queensland Government's Supervised Community Accommodation program found that the bail houses are not effective.
Few children elect to stay in the houses, the overcrowding in youth detention centres is not effectively being alleviated, and hundreds of incidents described as “critical” by the report have occurred.
The report found that the program, costing taxpayers almost $10 billion last financial year, was not providing value for money.
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