Number of children in the child protection system
Child protection Australia 2017–18
Publication
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Topic: Child protection
Citation
AIHW
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2019) Child protection Australia 2017–18, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 20 May 2024.
APA
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2019). Child protection Australia 2017–18. Canberra: AIHW.
MLA
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Child protection Australia 2017–18. AIHW, 2019.
Vancouver
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Child protection Australia 2017–18. Canberra: AIHW; 2019.
Harvard
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2019, Child protection Australia 2017–18, AIHW, Canberra.
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During 2017–18, 159,000 (28.7 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 8 times as likely as non-Indigenous children to have received child protection services. 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.
Data visualisations were added to this report on 1 July.
- ISSN: 2205-5037
- ISBN: 978-1-76054-502-4
- Cat. no: CWS 65
- Pages: 106
Findings from this report:
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1 in 35 children received child protection services
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72% of children who received child protection services were repeat clients
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31,800 children have been in out-of-home care for 2 years or more
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Children from Very remote areas are 4 times as likely as those from Major cities to be the subject of a substantiation