Table of contents
- Contributing departments
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Preface
- Summary
- 1 lntroduction
- 2 Scope and coverage
- 3 Children under care and protection orders in Australia
- General
- Reporting procedures
- 4 Children under care and protection orders 1993-94
- All care and protection orders
- Guardianship orders
- Non-guardianship orders
- Placement type
- Characteristics of children living with parents or relatives
- Characteristics of children living in foster care
- Characteristics of children living in residential child care
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
- Changes over time
- 5 Detailed tables
- Placement tables
- Age distribution
- Admissions and discharges
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
- Changes over time
- 6 Legislative definition of 'in need of care and protection'
- 7 Types of non-guardianship orders in each State and Territory
- 8 Explanation of terms
- 9 Related legislation
- 10 Related AIHW publications