Fams is proud to be a part of a coalition of 130+ organisations and groups calling on the NSW government to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility from 10to at least 14.
In NSW ten-year-olds can be sent to prison. That is too young. Criminalising young children harms them, and it doesn’t prevent crime, it creates crime.
On their tenth birthday children should be looking forward to parties and presents, not the prospect of prison.
Find out more about Raise The Age NSW here.
