Foreword -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Findings and recommendations -- 3. Methodolgy -- 4. An overview of the children in detention -- 5. What does the law say about detaining children? -- 6. Mothers and babies in detention -- 7. Preschoolers in detention -- 8. Primary school aged children in detention -- 9. Teenagers in detention -- 10. Unaccompanied children in detention -- 11. Children indefinitely detained -- 12. Children in detention on Nauru -- 13. Continuing impacts on children once released -- Endnotes -- Appendices: 1. Review of detention policy and practices 2004-2014 -- 2. Detailed Inquiry methodology -- 3. List of public submissions -- 4. Schedule of public hearings and witness list -- 5. Notices to Produce -- 6. Inquiry questionnaire forms -- 7. Departmental policies and procedures -- 8. Departmental responses to findings and recommendations of the Inquiry -- 9. Acknowledgements