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(a) a new legislative framework for the adult custodial corrections system which focusses on rehabilitation, safety, cultural and human rights (recommendation 2.1)

(b) a new independent Inspectorate of Custodial Services including an Aboriginal Inspector of Adult Custodial Services (recommendation 2.3)

(c) enhanced data capability and information management system (recommendation 2.6), but which must apply Indigenous Data Sovereignty principles in relation to data of First Peoples

(d) improved professional development for the custodial workforce (recommendation 3.9), but taking into account the above recommendations for strengthening capability, competence and support in relation to human and cultural rights, and

(e) other recommendations in relation to Aboriginal prisoners (see recommendations 5.3 to 5.16).

(a) take all legislative, administrative and other steps to implement the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners in relation to the use of solitary confinement at all Victorian prisons and youth justice centres, including an express prohibition on the use of solitary confinement on children and on the use of prolonged or indefinite solitary confinement on adults, and

(b) ensure that Victorian prisons and youth justice centres are adequately funded and properly operated so that the common practice of locking down prisoners in their cells for prolonged periods for administrative or management reasons in violation of their human and cultural rights is ended.

(a) review section 534 of the Children, Youth and Families Act 2005 (Vic) to identify a workable model that:

• (i) places clear time limits on the operation of section 534 so that where the only individuals identified in a publication are adults who have provided their consent, and the Children’s Court matter is historical in nature, then the prohibition does not apply, and
• (ii) enables a Royal Commission or similar inquiry to publish information about a child who is subject to protection proceedings or a protection order, where the child provides that information, is capable of understanding the consequences of losing anonymity and provides their consent, and

(b) ensure that any review of section 534 of the Children, Youth and Families Act is First Peoples led insofar as the proposed reforms affect First Peoples.