Child protection Australia 2018–19
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Topic: Child protection
Citation
AIHW
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2020) Child protection Australia 2018–19, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 01 October 2023.
APA
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2020). Child protection Australia 2018–19. Canberra: AIHW.
MLA
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Child protection Australia 2018–19. AIHW, 2020.
Vancouver
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Child protection Australia 2018–19. Canberra: AIHW; 2020.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2020, Child protection Australia 2018–19, AIHW, Canberra.
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During 2018–19, 170,200 (30 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. Over 3,700 children were reunified with family during 2018–19.
A complimentary data visualisation report Child protection Australia: children in the child protection system is also available.
- ISSN: 2205 5037
- ISBN: 978 1 76054 677 9
- Cat. no: CWS 74
- Pages: 161
Findings from this report:
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1 in 33 children received child protection services
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68% of children who received child protection services were repeat clients
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30,300 children have been in out-of-home care for 2 years or more
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Children from Very remote areas are 3 times as likely as those from Major cities to be the subject of a substantiation