«We want to be the standard of excellence for education for all students that
enter youth facilities,» said principal Ismail El - Shaakir at the schools» dedication ceremony on January 11.
The Prime Minister's initial announcement was that it would be joint NT / federal Commission into the treatment of children held in the Don Dale Detention Centre, but NT Chief Minister Adam Giles flagged later that, as he and the Federal Attorney General George Brandis worked to negotiate the terms of reference, he would like it to «look at some of the root causes... why children are
entering the
youth system in the Northern Territory... recognising that there are children who are being neglected, unloved, getting into trouble, causing trouble in the streets, and finding their way into our detention
facilities.»