Australian Centre of Excellence for Youth Justice

The numbers, the names, and the stories.

Australia spends $1.14 billion locking up roughly 860 young people on the average day. The community-led response costs a tenth of that and reaches four times more young people. JusticeHub holds both pictures in one place — searchable, source-cited, contributable.

What's in the catalogue

104,421
Organisations tracked
149
Confirmed Tier 1 frontline YJ
1,603
ACCO-certified orgs
77
Government YJ programs
24,977
Live grant opportunities
15
Tracked foundations
0
Civic intelligence claims
60
Claims triangulated by 3+ sources

Why this exists

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people are 20 times more likely to be under youth justice supervision than non-Indigenous young people. The systems that should support communities to do this work have been treating community-led organisations as an afterthought.

Across all of Australian foundation philanthropy we track, 1.46% reaches Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations. Of the youth-justice-specific share, it's 8.46% — still well below parity. Government runs programs it announces as community-led but only delivers the label to a handful.

JusticeHub holds these numbers next to the names. Search a place. See who's there. See who's funding what. See the source for every claim, with confidence weighted by how many independent datasets back it.

Browse by state

Detention cost, community alternatives, frontline organisations, foundation flows, oversight findings — for one jurisdiction at a time.

How we know what we know

Every claim on JusticeHub has a citation trail. The triangulation framework means a claim earns its headline only when multiple independent datasets agree.

We classify claims as Triangulated (3+ sources) or Corroborated (2 sources). Sources include:

  • Productivity Commission Report on Government Services (ROGS)
  • Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW)
  • Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations (ORIC) — authoritative ACCO test
  • Australian Business Register (20 million ABN backbone)
  • State Sentencing Advisory Councils + Auditors-General + Children's Commissioners
  • Standing Council of Attorneys-General (SCAG) communiques
  • Ministerial diary registers and Hansard
  • Foundation grant records and ACNC charity returns

Where claims have lower confidence we say so. The data-quality audit at /intelligence/civic/data-quality shows where the gaps are.

Live data inventory

19

Active sources

58

Open data gaps

3

Closed by agent

83

Named people →

125

Role holdings

A research agent runs every night looking for more sources to close the gaps we name. A freshness watcher catches sources that have not been refreshed. A health probe catches URLs that have gone offline. The system reconsiders "do we have enough" continuously, not just on demand.

For different audiences

If you fund this work

  • ·See where the money is going and where it isn't
  • ·Compare your portfolio to the ACCO-share asymmetry
  • ·Find under-resourced Tier 1 frontline orgs
Foundation analysis

If you research this work

  • ·Citation-grade claims with full source trail
  • ·Methodology page documents every aggregation
  • ·Open-source data layer
Methodology

If you do this work

  • ·Find peer programs working in your area
  • ·Find live grants matching your sector
  • ·Add your service if it's not listed
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Built from the community up.

JusticeHub is open infrastructure. The data, the schemas, and the methodology are public. The Australian Centre of Excellence for Youth Justice is what gets built when we hold both the data and the people in one place.

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