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The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle Indicators 2018-19: measuring progress
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2020) The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle Indicators 2018-19: measuring progress, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 04 December 2023. doi:10.25816/4g1s-z040
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2020). The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle Indicators 2018-19: measuring progress. Canberra: AIHW.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle Indicators 2018-19: measuring progress. AIHW, 2020.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle Indicators 2018-19: measuring progress. Canberra: AIHW; 2020.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2020, The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle Indicators 2018-19: measuring progress, AIHW, Canberra.
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The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle (ATSICPP) is a framework designed to promote policy and practice that will reduce the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the child protection system. This report brings together the latest state and territory data on 5 ATSICPP indicators that measure and track the application of the Placement and Connection elements of the ATSICPP.
63% of Indigenous children in out-of-home care were living with family or Indigenous caregivers
77% of Indigenous children in out-of-home care had current, documented and approved cultural support plans
19% of Indigenous children in out-of-home care during 2018–19 were reunified with family
82% of Indigenous children reunified during 2017–18 did not return to out-of-home care in the following 12 months
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle Indicators 2018-19: measuring progress