Child protection Australia 2015–16
Citation
AIHW
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2017) Child protection Australia 2015–16, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 24 April 2024.
APA
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2017). Child protection Australia 2015–16. Canberra: AIHW.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Child protection Australia 2015–16. AIHW, 2017.
Vancouver
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Child protection Australia 2015–16. Canberra: AIHW; 2017.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2017, Child protection Australia 2015–16, AIHW, Canberra.
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During 2015–16, 162,175 (30.2 per 1,000) Australian children received child protection services (investigation, care and protection order and/or were in out-of-home care). Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children were 7 times as likely as non-Indigenous children to have received child protection services. This report also showed that children from geographically remote areas were more likely to be the subject of a substantiation, or be in out-of-home care than those from major cities.
- ISSN: 1320-081X (Print) 2205-5037 (Online)
- ISBN: 978-1-76054-092-0
- Cat. no: CWS 60
- Pages: 107
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1 in 33 children received child protection services
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73% of children who received child protection services were repeat clients
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Emotional abuse was the most common type of abuse substantiated (45%)
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1 in 3 children who were the subject of a substantiation were from the lowest socioeconomic areas