Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2019) Young people in child protection and under youth justice supervision: 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2018, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 19 April 2024.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2019). Young people in child protection and under youth justice supervision: 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2018. Canberra: AIHW.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Young people in child protection and under youth justice supervision: 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2018. AIHW, 2019.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Young people in child protection and under youth justice supervision: 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2018. Canberra: AIHW; 2019.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2019, Young people in child protection and under youth justice supervision: 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2018, AIHW, Canberra.
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This report presents information on young people aged 10–17 who had received child protection services and were under youth justice supervision at any time between 1 July 2014 and 30 June 2018. Young people who had been under youth justice supervision were 9 times as likely as the general population to have received child protection services. Indigenous Australians were 17 times as likely as their non-Indigenous counterparts to have received both child protection services and youth justice supervision.
Between 1 July 2014 and 30 June 2017, 50% of those under youth justice supervision had also been in child protection
8% of those receiving child protection services were also under youth justice supervision during the 4-year period
Of the young people who experienced both child protection and youth justice, 81% experienced child protection first
Those receiving child protection services were 9 times as likely as the general population to also be in youth justice
Child Protection National Minimum Dataset 2017–18, Data Quality Statement
Juvenile Justice National Minimum Dataset 2017–18, Data Quality Statement
Amendment
11 July 23 – A change was made to the wording in the Summary, under heading ‘Around half of those under youth justice supervision had also received child protection services’, paragraph 2, from ‘youth justice services’ to ‘child protection services’.
