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Child Concern Reports data

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• What is a Child Concern Report?
• Why this topic is important
• Trends

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Tables

• Child concern reports recorded by departmental zone, Queensland, 2005-06 to 2007-08 (Excel 17 KB)

Quarterly data

• Child concern reports recorded by departmental zone, Queensland, 2005-06 to year ending 31 March 2009 (Excel 25 KB)

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Map

• Service centre zones and data
  Map of zones and service centre data for the years 2004 through to 2008.

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What is a Child Concern Report?

A Child Concern Report is recorded when the information received does not suggest that a child is in need of protection. A child safety officer may respond to a report by:

• providing information and advice to the person reporting the concern
• making a referral to another agency
• providing information to the police or another state authority.

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Why this topic is important

A Child Concern Report may still indicate that there is cause for concern though it does not suggest a child is in need of protection.

Services can be offered to assist the child and their family including referral to prevention and early intervention services. Families are also encouraged and assisted to explore other areas of support, such as wider family and local community.

A child safety officer's role is to provide support to children and families and prevent the need for further involvement in the child protection system in the future.

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Trends

The recording of child concern reports commenced in March 2005. Previously, protective advice type responses were recorded as a notification or in a separate category called 'Protective advice'.

In 2007-08, the Department recorded 46,882 child concern reports, an increase of 12.7 per cent since 2006-07 (41,615).

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Last updated

28 August 2009