Kurlana Tapa Youth Justice Centre residents can have 2 or more personal visits each week from family and friends. Immediate family members will always have first priority.
Immediate family can visit residents during the week. Other family and friends can visit on the weekend.
Approvals need to take place before visitors can come in. Residents must tell staff who they want to visit them and pass on their contact details.
As well as personal visits, residents can have professional and support visits from people such as:
- solicitors or lawyers
- counsellors
- chaplains or religious ministers
- Aboriginal Elders
- case managers
- independent advocates.
Book a visit with a resident
Personal visitors must make a booking to see a resident. The booking must be made at least 24 hours before the time you want to visit.
Remember, you must be approved before you can visit.
You can call to make a booking from Monday to Friday at one of these times:
- between 9.00 am and 12.00 noon
- between 1.00 pm and 2.30 pm.
Call 8169 1444
You cannot call on the weekend to make a booking.
You cannot make a booking on behalf of someone else.
Visiting a resident
- All visitors must provide photo identification.
- If a personal visitor is under the age of 18 years, they need to be accompanied by an adult. All children visiting must be listed at the time of making the booking, including their age.
- Personal visitors need to arrive 15 minutes before the visit time for a security check.
- Visitors are not able to bring items into the visit area. There are lockers available for storing personal items.
- All visitors must be appropriately dressed.
- Any visitor who, in the opinion of the staff, appears under the influence of drugs or alcohol will be refused access.
Contact
If you have any queries regarding contacting or visiting a young person, phone 8169 1455 or 8169 1444.