The State’s independent children’s commissioner has pointed to the recent juvenile crime wave in Kununurra as proof authorities needed better support to intervene to help at-risk kids earlier in life.

It comes after former police comissioner Karl O’Callaghan called for “woke rot” to be abandoned and child offenders to be removed from unsafe homes to keep them off the streets and turning to offences such as car theft and police chases.

WA Commissioner for Children and Young People Jacqueline McGowan-Jones said State agencies needed to work closer together to aid struggling parents of juveniles, rather than blame them.

Ms McGowan-Jones said she had met a 10-year-old in the Kimberley who looked “already lost” and “dead” in the eyes.

She said incidents such as the arrest of a boy of the

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