Details
Legal instruments & key provisions
Legal instrument | Key provision |
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Children Act 2001 | Most juvenile offenders have been held in Children Detention Schools. The purpose of these schools is to provide care, education, training and other programmes with a view to reintegrating the children into society. Apart from that, the Government allocated resources to develop a new National Children Detention facility at Oberstown in 2015, involving the building of six new detention units with associated facilities. |
NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM RECOMMENDATIONS
Year | Recommendation | Report |
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2021 | No NPM established. |