Nathan Ward spent over 15 years working in and around custodial institutions.

As they grow older they will be transferred to proper custodial institutions.

Such children are subjects for custodial institutions.

The inquiry will also investigate child sex abuse on the internet, custodial institutions, residential schools and child exploitation by organised networks.

Anne Bell says she herself was ambivalent, but became convinced that smaller, community-based living circumstances were preferable to large-scale custodial institutions.