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Intervention with parental agreement data

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• What is intervention with parental agreement?
• Why this topic is important
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Tables

• Children subject to intervention with parental agreement, by departmental zone, Queensland, as at 30 June 2008 (Excel 22 KB)

Quarterly data

• Children subject to Intervention with Parental Agreement, by departmental zone, Queensland, as at 30 June 2007 to 31 March 2009 (Excel 28 KB)

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What is intervention with parental agreement?

Intervention with parental agreement (IPA) refers to departmental intervention based on agreement by the parents to work with the department to meet the protection and care needs of the child. As the department is working on a voluntary basis with a family, it does not require the use of a court order.

IPA enables the department to provide support and assistance to the family, where it is likely that the parents will be able to meet the protection needs of a child once the intervention is completed.

It is generally of a short-term and intensive nature, and it is usual for the child to remain at home for all, or most of, the intervention period.

IPA is only used when the level of risk to a child is appropriate.

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Why this topic is important

The department seeks to implement strategies to ensure the safety of the child or young person which are the least disruptive to the child or young person.

An IPA is considered to be one of those strategies as its purpose is to work voluntarily with a family to protect the child.

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Trends

In 2007-08, there were 1,490 children subject to IPA. Of these children, 460 were Indigenous, representing an increase of 28.1 per cent since 2006-07. The number of non-Indigenous children subject to IPA remained stable over the same period.

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Last updated

28 August 2009