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Young people under youth justice supervision and in child protection 2018–19
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2020) Young people under youth justice supervision and in child protection 2018–19, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 30 September 2023. doi:10.25816/ech1-dg08
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2020). Young people under youth justice supervision and in child protection 2018–19. Canberra: AIHW.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Young people under youth justice supervision and in child protection 2018–19. AIHW, 2020.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Young people under youth justice supervision and in child protection 2018–19. Canberra: AIHW; 2020.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2020, Young people under youth justice supervision and in child protection 2018–19, AIHW, Canberra.
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This report presents information on young people under youth justice supervision during 2018–19 who had received child protection services in the 5 years from 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2019. More than half of young people who had been in youth justice supervision had also received child protection services in the 5-year period. About one-third were the subject of a substantiated notification for abuse or neglect. Almost 1 in 4 (23%) young people were placed on a care and protection order and 22% were placed in out-of-home care in the last 5 years.
54% of those under youth justice supervision in 2018–19 had received a child protection service in the last 5 years
28% of those under youth justice supervision in 2018–19 had received a child protection service in the same year
61% of those in detention during 2018–19 had received a child protection service in the last 5 years
23% of those under youth justice supervision in 2018–19 received a care and protection order in the last 5 years
Young people under youth justice supervision and in child protection 2018–19