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Child protection Australia 2017–18

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Release Date: 08 Mar 2019
Topic: Child protection
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2019) Child protection Australia 2017–18, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 28 January 2023.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2019). Child protection Australia 2017–18. Canberra: AIHW.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Child protection Australia 2017–18. AIHW, 2019.

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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:
  • 1 in 35 children received child protection services

  • 72% of children who received child protection services were repeat clients

  • 31,800 children have been in out-of-home care for 2 years or more

  • Children from Very remote areas are 4 times as likely as those from Major cities to be the subject of a substantiation

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    • Summary
    • Children receiving child protection services
      • Overview
      • New and repeat clients
      • Indigenous children
      • Trends in rates of children in the child protection system
      • Children in substantiated abuse or neglect cases
      • Children on care and protection orders
      • Children in out-of-home care
    • Data visualisations
      • Number of children in the child protection system
      • Rates for children in the child protection system
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Data quality statement

Child Protection National Minimum Dataset, 2017–18 Data Quality Statement

Last updated 25/02/2019 v5.0

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