Source document: https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1697646015269.pdf (Australia)
There are many indications that children and young people who are granted bail are often subject to onerous bail conditions with which it can be very difficult to comply.

Common conditions include residential conditions, reporting to police, curfews, place restrictions, and non-association conditions.

Punitive attitudes towards children and young people, including the refusal of bail or the imposition of onerous conditions have become commonplace, particularly for Indigenous children and young people.
The Bail Act 1978 applies equally to children and adults, prevailing over children's legislation where there is an inconsistency (section 5 Bail Act and section 50 Children (Criminal Proceedings) Act 1987), and indirectly discriminating against children.
Discrimination is pronounced in the reluctance of police and courts to release juveniles on their own undertaking (Stubbs, 1984, in Brown et al, 2006, 169) and the imposition of more onerous bail conditions on children than adults including place restrictions, non- association orders residential conditions and curfews.

It is accompanied by zero tolerance policing which means that children are often arrested for minor breaches (Bargen, Review of Children's Legal Service, 2007, 36 and 41).
Almost one quarter of Aboriginal children (23.7%) are brought before the court for breach of bail conditions that are not accompanied by fresh offences (Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, 2007).

In NSW 38.8% of all children and young people on remand in 2008 were Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander (NSW Auditor-General 2008, Auditor-General's Report Financial Audits Volume Five).
Only 16% of children and young people on remand go on to receive a custodial sentence (Special Commission of Inquiry into Child Protection Services in NSW 2008).
(For recent research, detailed commentary and recommendations on the issue of bail and remand and the impact on young people in the juvenile justice system, see the following reports: 'Releasing the pressure on reman: Bail support solutions for children and young people in New South Wales', UnitingCare Burnside, July 2009; 'Bail Me Out: NSW Young Offenders and Bail', Youth Justice Coalition, Wong, Bailey, Kenny, September 2009.)

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