Aboriginal-led Data Sharing: Child Protection and Out-of-home Care Statistics (older version)

This theme includes the number and rate of the children and young people involved in risk of significant harm (ROSH) reports, those who were seen by DCJ caseworkers and children who entered OOHC. It also presents the likelihood of Aboriginal children and young people reported at ROSH, children seen and entered OOHC, compared to non-Aboriginal children and young people.

This theme highlights the top three primary reported issues during the year. It also presents the number of children and young people involved in ROSH reports and the proportion who were seen by DCJ caseworkers.

This theme focuses on the placement of Aboriginal children and young people according to the Aboriginal Placement Principles. Section 13 of the Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1998 provides for a general order of placement for Aboriginal children. The aim is to ensure that, if possible and assessed as safe, Aboriginal children and young people are placed within their biological family, extended family, local Aboriginal community or wider Aboriginal community and culture. The purpose of this placement principle is to enhance and preserve Aboriginal children’s sense of their Aboriginal identity and to stay connected with their Aboriginal culture.

This theme includes measures on children and young people entering OOHC, % entering OOHC for the first time and in OOHC by placement stability. It also includes children and young people in statutory OOHC who were placed with NGOs and also by case management responsibility, which includes DCJ, Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations (ACCO) and non-Aboriginal NGOs.