Young people in child protection and under youth justice supervision: 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2018
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Topic: Youth justice
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AIHW (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare) (2019) Young people in child protection and under youth justice supervision: 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2018, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 16 June 2026.
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This report presents information on young people aged 10–17 who had received child protection services and were under youth justice supervision at any time between 1 July 2014 and 30 June 2018. Young people who had been under youth justice supervision were 9 times as likely as the general population to have received child protection services. Indigenous Australians were 17 times as likely as their non-Indigenous counterparts to have received both child protection services and youth justice supervision.
- ISSN: 2205-5045 (Online)
- ISBN: 978-1-76054-622-9 (Online)
- Cat. no: CSI 27
- Pages: 36
Findings from this report:
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Between 1 July 2014 and 30 June 2017, 50% of those under youth justice supervision had also been in child protection
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8% of those receiving child protection services were also under youth justice supervision during the 4-year period
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Of the young people who experienced both child protection and youth justice, 81% experienced child protection first
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Those receiving child protection services were 9 times as likely as the general population to also be in youth justice