Child protection Australia 2019–20
Citation
AIHW
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2021) Child protection Australia 2019–20, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 11 December 2023. doi:10.25816/g208-rp81
APA
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2021). Child protection Australia 2019–20. Canberra: AIHW.
MLA
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Child protection Australia 2019–20. AIHW, 2021.
Vancouver
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Child protection Australia 2019–20. Canberra: AIHW; 2021.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2021, Child protection Australia 2019–20, AIHW, Canberra.
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During 2019-20, 174,700 (31 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 5,300 children were reunified with family during 2019–20.
- ISSN: 1320-081X
- ISBN: 978-1-76054-822-3
- DOI: 10.25816/g208-rp81
- Cat. no: CWS 78
- Pages: 116
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1 in 32 children received child protection services
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67% of children who received child protection services were repeat clients
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30,600 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