Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Title and verso title pages
    • Contents
    • Acknowledgments
      • South Australia
      • New South Wales
      • Tasmania
      • Victoria
      • Western Australia
      • Queensland
      • Northern Territory
    • Abbreviations
      • Symbols used in tables
      • Technical notes
    • Summary
      • Main findings
        • Notifications, investigations and substantiations
        • Children on care and protection orders
        • Children in out-of-home care
        • Foster carers
        • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children
        • Intensive family support services
    • Body content
      • 1 Introduction
        • 1.1 Child protection overview and processes
          • Reports to the department
          • Notifications, investigations and substantiations
          • Care and protection orders
          • Out-of-home care
          • Family support services
        • 1.2 Developments in child protection policies and practices
          • Australian developments
            • The National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children 2009–2020
              • Framework principles
              • Framework governance
              • Framework reporting
          • International snapshot
        • 1.3 Child protection data collections
          • Data sources
          • Data limitations
          • Key differences across state and territory collections
          • Changes in data systems
        • 1.4 Future directions for the national data collections
          • Unit record file development
          • Treatment and support services development
        • 1.5 Structure of this report
      • 2 Notifications, investigations and substantiations
        • 2.1 Overview
          • Scope
          • Definitions
            • Child protection notifications
            • Investigations
            • Substantiations of notifications
          • Interpretation of the data
        • 2.2 Numbers of notifications, investigations and substantiations
          • Notifications and investigations
            • Recent trends in notifications
            • Outcomes of finalised investigations
            • Source of notifications for finalised investigations
          • Substantiations and type of abuse and neglect
            • Substantiations of notifications
            • Types of abuse or neglect
            • Family type
        • 2.3 Characteristics of children
          • Number of children
          • Rates by sex of child
          • Rates by age of child
          • Types of abuse and neglect
          • Recent trends regarding children in substantiations
        • 2.4 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
          • Children in substantiations
          • Types of abuse and neglect
      • 3 Care and protection orders
        • 3.1 Overview
          • Scope
          • Definitions
            • Children who are in need of care and protection
            • Types of care and protection orders
              • Finalised guardianship or custody orders
              • Finalised third-party parental responsibility
              • Finalised supervisory orders
              • Interim and temporary orders
              • Administrative arrangements
          • Interpretation of the data
        • 3.2 Numbers of care and protection orders
          • Orders issued
        • 3.3 Characteristics of children on orders
          • Children admitted to, and discharged from, orders
            • Recent trends in children admitted to orders
          • Types of orders
          • Age and sex of children
          • Living arrangements
          • Recent trends regarding children on care and protection orders
        • 3.4 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
          • Children on orders
          • Types of orders
      • 4 Out-of-home care
        • 4.1 Overview
          • Scope
          • Definitions
            • Types of placements
          • Interpretation of the data
        • 4.2 Characteristics of children in out-of-home care
          • Children admitted to, and discharged from, out-of-home care
          • Types of placement
          • Age and sex of children
          • Children on a care and protection order
          • Length of time in continuous placement
          • Recent trends regarding children in out-of-home care
        • 4.3 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
          • Children in out-of-home care
          • The Aboriginal Child Placement Principle
      • 5 Foster carers
        • 5.1 Overview
          • Scope and definitions
          • Interpretation of the data
        • 5.2 Foster carer households
      • 6 Intensive family support services
        • 6.1 Overview
          • Scope
          • Definitions
        • 6.2 Children commencing intensive family support services
    • End matter
      • Appendix 1: Detailed tables
        • Notifications, investigations and substantiations
        • Care and protection orders
        • Out-of-home care
        • Population data
      • Appendix 2: Technical notes
        • Calculation of rates
          • Rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
        • Identification of Indigenous status
          • Children
          • Caregivers
      • Appendix 3: Mandatory reporting requirements
        • New South Wales
        • Victoria
        • Queensland
        • Western Australia
        • South Australia
        • Tasmania
        • Australian Capital Territory
        • Northern Territory
      • Appendix 4: Legislation
        • Child protection legislation
          • Commonwealth
          • New South Wales
          • Victoria
          • Queensland
          • Western Australia
          • South Australia
          • Tasmania
          • Australian Capital Territory
          • Northern Territory
        • Legislative definition of ‘in need of care and protection’
          • New South Wales
          • Victoria
          • Queensland
          • Western Australia
          • South Australia
          • Tasmania
          • Australian Capital Territory
          • Northern Territory
      • Appendix 5: Policy and practice differences in states and territories
        • Notifications, investigations and substantiations
        • Care and protection orders
          • Finalised guardianship and custody orders
          • Finalised third-party parental responsibility orders
          • Finalised supervisory orders
          • Interim and temporary orders
          • Administrative arrangements
        • Out-of-home care
          • Out-of-home care and court orders
          • Other state and territory differences
      • Appendix 6: Recent state and territory policy changes
        • New South Wales
        • Victoria
        • Queensland
        • Western Australia
        • South Australia
        • Tasmania
        • Australian Capital Territory
        • Northern Territory
      • Appendix 7: Jurisdictions’ data systems
        • Key differences between jurisdictions’ data systems
          • Notifications, investigations and substantiations
            • Abuse in care
            • No suitable caregiver
        • Relevant changes in data systems
          • New South Wales
          • Victoria
          • Queensland
          • Western Australia
          • South Australia
          • Tasmania
          • Australian Capital Territory
      • Appendix 8: Inquiries into child protection services
      • Glossary
        • General definitions
          • Child protection and support services
          • Indigenous status
            • Indigenous
            • Non-Indigenous
            • Unknown
        • Definitions for child protection notifications, investigations and substantiations
          • Age of child
          • Child protection notification
          • Family of residence
            • (a) Two parent—natural
            • (b) Two parent—step or blended
            • (c) Single parent—female
            • (d) Single parent—male
            • (e) Other relatives/kin
            • (f) Foster care
            • (g) Other
            • (h) Not stated
          • Investigation outcome
            • (a) Finalised investigation
              • Substantiated
              • Not-Substantiated
            • (b) Investigation closed—no outcome possible
            • (c) Investigation in process
          • Source of notification
            • (a) Parent/guardian
            • (b) Sibling
            • (c) Other relative
            • (d) Friend/neighbour
            • (e) Medical practitioner
            • (f) Other health personnel
            • (g) Hospital/health centre personnel
            • (h) Social worker/welfare worker/psychologist/other trained welfare worker
            • (i) School personnel
            • (j) Child care personnel
            • (k) Police
            • (l) Departmental officer
            • (m) Non-government organisation
            • (n) Anonymous
            • (o) Other
            • (p) Not stated
          • Substantiation of a notification received during the year
          • Type of abuse or neglect
            • (a) Physical abuse
            • (b) Sexual abuse
            • (c) Emotional abuse
            • (d) Neglect
          • Type of action (for child protection notifications)
            • (a) Investigation
              • Investigations to be included in this data collection relate to notifications of a child aged less than 18 years of age made to an authorised department between 1 July 2009 and 30 June 2010, which were subsequently investigated.
            • (b) Dealt with by other means
              • This includes two sub-categories outlined below.
        • Definitions for care and protection orders
          • Age of child
          • Child subject to orders
          • Types of care and protection orders
            • Finalised guardianship or custody orders
            • Involve the transfer of legal guardianship to the relevant state or territory department or non-government agency. These orders involve considerable intervention in the child’s life and that of their family, and are sought only as a last resort. Guard...
            • Finalised third-party parental responsibility
              • Transfer all duties, powers, responsibilities and authority parents are entitled to by law, to a nominated person(s) considered appropriate by the court. The nominated person may be an individual such as a relative or an officer of the state or territ...
            • Finalised supervisory orders
              • Give the department responsible for child protection some responsibility for a child’s welfare. Under these orders, the department supervises and/or directs the level and type of care that is to be provided to the child. Children under supervisory ord...
            • Interim and temporary orders
              • Generally cover the provisions of a limited period of supervision and/or placement of a child. Parental responsibility under these orders may reside with the parents or with the department responsible for child protection. Unfinalised orders (such as ...
            • Administrative arrangements
              • Agreements with the child protection departments, which have the same effect as a court order of transferring custody or guardianship. These arrangements can also allow a child to be placed in out-of-home care without going through the courts.
          • Living arrangements
            • (a) Residential care
            • (b) Family group homes
            • (c) Home-based out-of-home care
            • (d) Family care—including:
              • (i) parents—(natural or adoptive)
              • (ii) relatives or kin who are NOT reimbursed (other than parents).
            • (e) Independent living
            • (f) Other living arrangements
        • Definitions for out-of-home care
          • Age of child
          • Respite care
          • Type of placement
            • (a) Residential care
            • (b) Family group homes
            • (c) Home-based care
              • (i) relative/kinship care–includes family members (other than parents) or a person well known to the child and/or family (based on a pre–existing relationship) who is reimbursed (or who has been offered but declined reimbursement) by the state/ territ...
        • Definitions for foster carers
          • Child
          • Foster carer household
        • Definitions for intensive family support services
          • Age
          • Agency
          • Indigenous
          • Intensive family support services
          • Living situation
            • (a) family care
              • (i) child/ren living with parent(s)
              • (ii) child/ren living with other relatives/kin who are not reimbursed by the state for their care.
          • Location
          • Geographic area
          • Type of service
      • References
      • List of tables
      • List of figures
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