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• Child Protection System Framework
• Intake phase
  • Child Concern Reports data
  • Notifications data
• Investigation and assessment phase
  • Investigation and assessment data
  • Assessment orders data
  • Substantiations data
• Ongoing intervention phase
  • Intervention with parental agreement data
  • Short-term protection orders data
  • Living away from home data
  • Indigenous Child Placement Principle data
  • Carers data
• Ongoing intervention phase (Permanency planning)
  • Long-term protection orders data
  • Exiting out-of-home care data
  • Adoption data
• Child death case reviews data
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• Re-entry data
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Brisbane North and Sunshine Coast

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* Service centres on map last updated December 2007.

Area and population (a)

Area Km2	21,758
Total population	1,185,060
Population aged 18+	911,341
Population aged 0-17	273,719

(a) Estimated residential population as at 30/6/2006 based on Australian Bureau of Statistics 32350-0, population by age and sex, Australia. Release date 24/7/2007.

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Zone data

Brisbane North and Sunshine Coast zone data for the years 2005-06 through to 2007-08 (a)

	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
Intake
Intakes	14,277	14,700	13,786
Child concern reports	7,770	8,620	9,012
Notifications	6,507	6,080	4,774
Other protective advice	n/a	n/a	n/a
Children notified	5,067	5,145	4,164
Investigation and assessment
Admissions to assessment orders	346	344	471
Temporary assessment orders	131	150	232
Court assessment orders	215	194	239
Notifications requiring investigation by outcome	6,507	6,080	4,952
Investigations finalised	5,629	5,334	4,914
Substantiations	3,338	2,440	1,907
Unsubstantiations	2,070	2,651	2,807
No investigation and assessment outcome	221	243	200
Investigations not yet finalised	878	746	38
Children subject to substantiations	2,579	2,093	1,697
Ongoing intervention (b)
Child protection orders (CPO)	1,085	1,126	1,253
Protective orders (CPO and CAO)	1,100	1,139	1,262
Children living away from home	1,138	1,166	1,246
Percentage of Indigenous children placed with kinship or Indigenous carer	55 %	48 %	42 %
Approved carer families	593	634	762

(a) The definitions used for each indicator are identified in the relevant tables under Our Performance.

(b) Figures are point in time, as at final day of reference period.

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Last updated

28 March 2008