Child protection Australia 2018–19

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Release Date: 18 Mar 2020

Topic: Child protection

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2020) Child protection Australia 2018–19, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 20 April 2024.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2020). Child protection Australia 2018–19. Canberra: AIHW.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Child protection Australia 2018–19. AIHW, 2020.

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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:

1 in 33 children received child protection services
68% of children who received child protection services were repeat clients
30,300 children have been in out-of-home care for 2 years or more
Children from Very remote areas are 3 times as likely as those from Major cities to be the subject of a substantiation

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