Child protection Australia 2019–20

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Release Date: 18 May 2021

Topic: Child protection

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2021) Child protection Australia 2019–20, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 20 April 2024. doi:10.25816/g208-rp81

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2021). Child protection Australia 2019–20. Canberra: AIHW. doi:10.25816/g208-rp81

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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

Findings from this report:

1 in 32 children received child protection services
67% of children who received child protection services were repeat clients
30,600 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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