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Links to all recommendations and next steps
How can I find out more?
The implementation status of individual recommendations, the context of the recommendation and the evidence relied on for the assessment and the final determination of the Expert Reference Group is available below.
Themes and individual recommendations
Support services and proceedings for families
Notifications
Statistical monitoring and reporting
Re-establishing family and community links
Education and employment for prisoners
Training and development for staff
- Recommendation 96
- Recommendation 133
- Recommendation 155
- Recommendation 160
- Recommendation 162
- Recommendation 163
- Recommendation 177
- Recommendation 178
- Recommendation 210
- Recommendation 288
For other recommendations specific to Justice Health NSW:
- Recommendation 154
- Recommendation 247
- Recommendation 257
- Recommendation 265
Go to Justice Health NSW: Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.
Non-custodial sentencing options
Information management
For other recommendations specific to Justice Health NSW:
- Recommendation 68
Go to Justice Health NSW: Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.
Placement and transfer of prisoners
Visitors and visiting schemes
Duty of care and safety
- Recommendation 122
- Recommendation 123
- Recommendation 124
- Recommendation 125
- Recommendation 136
- Recommendation 137
- Recommendation 139
- Recommendation 140
- Recommendation 141
- Recommendation 142
- Recommendation 143
- Recommendation 161
- Recommendation 164
- Recommendation 165
- Recommendation 174
- Recommendation 176
- Recommendation 179
- Recommendation 180
- Recommendation 182
- Recommendation 328
- Recommendation 329
- Recommendation 331
Health and medical services
For other recommendations specific to Justice Health NSW:
- Recommendation 127
- Recommendation 128
- Recommendation 150
- Recommendation 151
- Recommendation 152
- Recommendation 153
- Recommendation 156
- Recommendation 249
- Recommendation 250
- Recommendation 251
- Recommendation 254
- Recommendation 255
- Recommendation 256
- Recommendation 258
- Recommendation 269
Go to Justice Health NSW: Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.
Next steps
The findings of this review into the implementation of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody will be considered along with findings from other elements of the Thematic Review and synthesised into a final report outlining recommendations for reform.
Most importantly, fresh insights arising from investigations of more recent deaths and the perspectives of those most closely affected by these events will be sought and incorporated into new findings. Improvements in technology, communication, analytical skills and the opportunities for co-design promoted by the national commitment to Closing the Gap can be harnessed to create new approaches.
The Royal Commission was a seminal moment in modern Australian history. But, as Hal Wootten AC QC observed in 2011:
The National Report was not a revelation from on high, not a font of perennial wisdom, not the end of history, but a passing moment in it. It was a response to the problems of the time, by people of the time, using the tools of the time. Take what you can from it and move on. It is now your thinking, your imagination, your dedication and your professional commitment that is needed.
The Thematic Review takes up his challenge.
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We acknowledge Aboriginal people as the First Nations Peoples of NSW and pay our respects to Elders past, present, and future.
Informed by lessons of the past, Department of Communities and Justice is improving how we work with Aboriginal people and communities. We listen and learn from the knowledge, strength and resilience of Stolen Generations Survivors, Aboriginal Elders and Aboriginal communities.
You can access our apology to the Stolen Generations.