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You are here: Home Reports & data Child protection Permanency planning in child protection: a review of current concepts and available data 2016
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Permanency planning in child protection: a review of current concepts and available data 2016

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Release Date: 20 Sep 2016
Author: AIHW

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2016. Permanency planning in child protection: a review of current concepts and available data 2016. Cat. no. CWS 58. Canberra: AIHW.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2016). Permanency planning in child protection: a review of current concepts and available data 2016. Canberra: AIHW.

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Permanency planning and long-term care for children in out-of-home care can involve family reunification, third-party parental responsibility orders, long-term finalised guardianship/custody orders and adoptions by carers. This report describes concepts and available data in this area, and development work being undertaken to improve national reporting. Available data indicate: there were 31,129 children on finalised guardianship/custody orders and 9,070 children on finalised third-party parental responsibility orders at 30 June 2015; there were 94 adoptions by carers finalised in 2014–15; most (87%) children who had been continuously in care for 2 or more years had also spent at least 2 years in one main care arrangement.

  • ISSN: 2205-5037 (PDF) 1320-081X (Print)
  • ISBN: 978-1-74249-994-9
  • Cat. no: CWS 58
  • Pages: 37
Findings from this report:
  • 87% of children in care for 2 or more years had also spent at least 2 years in one main care arrangement

  • There were 94 adoptions by carers finalised in 2014–15

  • 9,070 children were on finalised third-party parental responsibility orders at 30 June 2015

  • 31,129 children were on finalised guardianship/custody orders at 30 June 2015

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