Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Half title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
    • Symbols used in the tables
    • Technical notes
    • Summary 
      • Who reports child abuse and neglect?
      • Key stages in the child protection process
      • Main findings
        • Notifications, investigations and substantiations
        • Children on care and protection orders
        • Children in out-of-home care
  • Body section
    1. Background
      • Child protection process
        • Recent project
        • Developments in child protection policies and practices
        • Recent policy changes
      • The child protection data
      • Important differences among states and territories
    2. Notifications, investigations and substantiations
      • Overview
        • Scope of the data collection
        • Categories used for notifications and investigations
        • Recent project
        • Data and analysis
        • Number of notifications, investigations and substantiations
        • Characteristics of children
        • Rates of children in substantiations
        • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
        • Additional data on notifications and substantiations
    3. Care and protection orders
      • Overview
        • Children who are in need of care and protection
        • Types of care and protection orders
        • Scope of the data collection
        • State and territory differences
        • Recent Project
        • Data and analysis
        • Admissions, discharges and orders issued
        • Trends in the number of children on orders
        • Characteristics of children on care and protection orders
        • Rates of children on care and protection orders
        • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
    4. Out-of-home care
      • Overview
        • Children who are placed in out-of-home care
        • Scope and coverage of out-of-home care data collection
        • Recent Project
      • Data and analysis
        • Admissions and discharges
        • Trends in numbers in out-of-home care
        • Characteristics of children in out-of-home care
        • Rates of children in out-of-home care
        • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
    5. Intensive family support services
      • Family support services
      • Intensive family support services data
  • End matter
    • Appendixes
      1. Detailed tables
        • Child protection
        • Care and protection orders
        • Out-of-home care
        • Populations
      2. Technical notes
        • Calculation of rates
          • Rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
          • Rates for other (Australian) children
        • Identification of Indigenous status
          • Children
          • Caregivers
      3. Legislation
        • Child protection legislation
        • Legislative definition of 'in need of care and protection'
      4. Mandatory reporting requirements
    • Glossary
    • References
    • List of tables
    • List of figures
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