Child protection Australia 2012-13

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Release Date: 25 Jul 2014

Topic: Child protection

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2014) Child protection Australia 2012-13, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 25 April 2024.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2014). Child protection Australia 2012-13. Canberra: AIHW.

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Child protection Australia 2012–13 represents a significant milestone in national child protection reporting as it is the first time that unit record level data have been available for analysis and reporting. This report shows that: - there were 135,000 children, a rate of 26.1 per 1,000 children, receiving child protection services (investigation; care and protection order; and/or placed in out-of-home care). - more than half (56%) of these children were subject only to an investigation (that is, they were not subsequently placed on an order or in out-of-home care) while 8% were involved in all three components of the system. - in 2012–13, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children were 8 times as likely as non-Indigenous children to be receiving child protection services.

ISSN: 1320-081X
ISBN: 978-1-74249-603-0
Cat. no: CWS 49
Pages: 154

Findings from this report:

1 in 38 (135,000) children received child protection services in 2012–13
1 in 5 children were the subject of multiple substantiations
73% of children who received child protection services were repeat clients
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children were 8 times as likely to have received child protection services

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