RECOMMENDATION 9 The Government and Department should make every effort to avoid the interstate separation of women in immigration detention from their family and supports by: a) ensuring appropriate accommodation for women is made available in all states/territories, and b) ensuring alternatives to closed immigration detention are made available to women where this is not possible. RECOMMENDATION 10 The Department should ensure that its existing visiting facilities foster an environment that is conducive to a positive visiting experience, particularly for child. The Department should provide child visitors with access to a wide variety of ageappropriate play activities, facilities and outdoor spaces. RECOMMENDATION 11 The Department should proactively encourage the extended contact of women in detention with their children as much as possible. This may include offering extending visiting times, facilitating regular activity days for women and their children and offering reasonable transportation assistance where necessary. RECOMMENDATION 12 The Department and Serco should develop policy and procedural guidance relating to the accommodation, welfare, security, and management of transgender persons in immigration detention. This guidance should: a) be informed by human rights principles including but not limited to the Yogyakarta Principles +10 b) be co-designed with input from transgender persons and their representative organisations, and c) effectively protect the individual from others who may wish to cause them harm, and to limit the risk that they may be placed in a location in which they may cause harm to others. 72 Not just an afterthoughtThe experience of women in immigration detention