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Advancing National Child Protection Data
Sam Chambers and Rachel KiloAustralian Institute of Health and Welfare
135,139 children receiving child protection services
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Who are we
• National independent statutory body• Health and welfare data custodian• Integrating authority (for data linkage)
Our missionAuthoritative information and statistics to promote better health
and wellbeing
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The Project• Enhancing the evidence base: a national
priority─ The National Framework for Protecting Australia’s
children 2009-2020
• From aggregate to unit record─ Development work commenced 2009─ First data used in 2012-13
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Why was change importantAggregate limitations Unit record capability
Data on key components of child protection system siloed
Capacity to look across components of child protection
Limited responsiveness and flexibility(Pre-determined questions)
Capacity to respond to emerging areas of interest
Broad indication of activity specific to child protection
Capacity to look at related fields and explore outcomes (homelessness, youth justice etc.)
Limited to looking at established trends Capacity to explore longitudinal trends and pathways (better able to tell stories)
Limited transparency Improved collaboration and consistency
Example aggregate table
Indigenous status
Sex IndigenousNon-
Indigenous Unknown Persons
Male 5,000 10,000 0 15,000
Female 4,000 12,000 0 16,000
Unknown 0 0 0 0
Persons 9,000 22,000 0 31,000
Example unit record (31,000 de-identified records)
Person
IDDate of
Birth Indigenous Status Sex Etc.
1 Child_A 10/08/2007
Aboriginal but not Torres Strait
Islander origin Male …
2 Child_B 01/03/2011
Both Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander origin Female …
3 Child_C 19/05/1999
Neither Aboriginal nor Torres Strait
Islander originIntersex or
indeterminate …
… … … … …
30,300 Child_Z 23/04/2012
Indigenous – not further specified Female …
Current Model
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Client demographics
Notifications, investigations
and substantiations
Care and protection orders
Living
arrangements
Carer
authorisations
National out-of-home care
standards
Siblings
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Child Protection Australia 2012-13Key findings:
• Over 135,000 children receiving child protection services
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children continue to be over-represented
• More than half the children receiving services were subject only to an investigation
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Key findings (cont.):
• Increasing numbers of children in substantiations, on care and protection orders and in out-of-home care
• Most children subject to a substantiation were from areas of lowest socioeconomic status, and 1 in 5 had more than one substantiation in the year.
• Emotional abuse and neglect the most common types of abuse/neglect
• On an average day, over 23,000 households were authorised to provide foster or relative/kinship care
New Analyses with
Unit record Data
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Children who were the subject of an
investigation of a notification
Children on care and
protection orders
Children in out-of-home
care
Number 91,370 51,997 50,307
Rate 17.6 10.0 9.7
135,139 Australian children receiving child protection services
Rate of 26.1 per 1,000
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Children receiving child protection services by components of service received
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Client
type
Children receiving child
protection services
Children on care and protection
orders
Children in out-of-home
care
Children who were the subject of an
investigation of a notification
Per cent
New client 32.7 12.6 12.4 47.0
Repeat client 67.3 87.4 87.6 53.0
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
New and repeat clients receiving child protection services, by service type
Number of substantiations per child
15
1 2 3 4+0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
80.0
Number of substantiations
%
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Indigenous Over-representation
Substantia-tions
Orders Out-of-home care
Receiving child protec-
tion
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
Indigenous Non-IndigenousRate (Number per 1,000)
0
2
4
6
8
10
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Rate ratio
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Co-occurrence of abuse
• Emotional abuse and neglect most common primary type
• 27% average co-occurrence
• Co-occurrence with physical abuse 37% (emotional) and 27% (neglect).
Most Disadvantaged
2 3 4 Most Advantaged0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70Indigenous Non-Indigenous
Socioeconomic status
%
Children who were the subjects of substantiations, by socioeconomic status at notification, 2012–13
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Next steps• Work to improve data quality/availability• Expand client information• National linkage work
Full reporthttp://www.aihw.gov.au/child-protection/
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