Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child safety
This paper provides an overview of key measures of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child safety, presenting a range of information relating to child injury and violence; child protection; and juvenile justice. National data show that Indigenous children are over-represented across a range of measures: for example, Indigenous children were 5 times as likely as non-Indigenous children to experience a hospital separation for assault; 8 times as likely to be the subject of substantiated child abuse or neglect; and 15 times as likely to be under juvenile justice supervision.
ISBN 978-1-74249-146-2; Cat. no. IHW 50; 20pp.; Internet only
Publication
Publication table of contents
- Preliminary material
- Title and verso title
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Summary
- Injury and violence
- Child abuse and neglect
- Juvenile justice
- Body content
- Introduction
- Injury and violence
- Injury hospitalisation
- Deaths from injury
- Factors contributing to injury rates
- Senate inquiry into suicide
- Child protection
- Indigenous children in child protection systems
- Type of abuse
- Factors contributing to Indigenous over-representation
- Juvenile justice
- Diversion
- Young people under supervision
- Age at first supervision or detention
- Unsentenced detention
- Inquiry into Indigenous juveniles in the criminal justice system
- End matter
Recommended citation
AIHW 2011. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child safety. Cat. no. IHW 50. Canberra: AIHW. Viewed 12 June 2013 <http://www.aihw.gov.au/publication-detail/?id=10737418980>.