Qld youth boot camps in doubt

Queensland's troubled youth offender boot camps are in doubt after a scathing report by the state's auditor-general.

The report released on Monday outlines ballooning costs, poor planning and a lack of transparency and documentation indicating how tenders for the camps were awarded.

Costs are expected to blow out to $12.3 million, from an initial estimate of $4.9 million, in less than two years.

The report says there's no document trail showing the reasons former Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie awarded tenders to certain providers and accusations of favouritism "cannot be readily rebutted".

Government funding for the camps runs out in June, contracts for service providers start ending in September and the sub-lease for the largest camp will cease in December.

Attorney-General Yvette D'Ath is now considering the future of the botched program.

"I would have serious concerns about proposing additional funding under the current contracts when there is no evidence the process had been done in a proper, transparent way," she told AAP.

"I need to be satisfied there is value for money; quite honestly, the evidence before me doesn't show that at all."

Ms D'Ath said there was still a lot of information to sift through before making a decision on funding.

But she said she preferred early intervention programs to deal with youth crime rather than reactive justice.

Ms D'Ath also called on Mr Bleijie to explain why he overrode the proper tender process.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk went further and demanded Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg sack Mr Bleijie from the shadow cabinet.

Mr Springborg hasn't commented on the report, but Mr Bleijie defended the program and rejected criticism by the auditor-general.

He stood by his decisions because of the "great outcomes" which he said auditor-general hadn't examined.

"He's interested in what happened at the start, I'm interested in what happens at the end," Mr Bleijie said.

"I'm interested in getting results on the board.

"Young kids' lives are turned around and that's exactly what we've got."

However, Ms D'Ath said new figures indicated the camps hadn't turned many lives around, with 56 per cent of youths at the largest camp charged with new offences after being released.