This bulletin includes national trends on children admitted to out-of-home care, and the out-of-home care experience for children admitted in 2014–15 (excluding New South Wales), including:
- Infants and Indigenous children are over-represented in admissions between 2011–12 and 2015–16.
- 55% of the children admitted during 2014–15 were still in out-of-home care at 30 June 2016.
- 61% of children discharged left within 6 months of their admission; 82% left within 12 months.