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Our performance

• 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
• Matters of concern data
• Re-entry data
• Demographics data
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Brisbane South and Gold Coast

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* Service centres on map last updated December 2007.

Area and population (a)

Area Km2	2,461
Total population	1,046,822
Population aged 18+	814,802
Population aged 0-17	232,020

(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 South and Gold Coast zone data for the years 2005-06 through to 2007-08 (a)

	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
Intake
Intakes	11,301	10,604	10,380
Child concern reports	5,319	5,879	6,533
Notifications	5,982	4,725	3,847
Other protective advice	n/a	n/a	n/a
Children notified	4,581	4,058	3,455
Investigation and assessment
Admissions to assessment orders	882	587	563
Temporary assessment orders	270	163	281
Court assessment orders	612	424	282
Notifications requiring investigation by outcome	5,982	4,725	3,408
Investigations finalised	4,311	3,585	3,398
Substantiations	2,485	1,652	1,414
Unsubstantiations	1,598	1,601	1,752
No investigation and assessment outcome	228	332	232
Investigations not yet finalised	1,671	1,140	10
Children subject to substantiations	1,888	1,519	1,309
Ongoing intervention (b)
Child protection orders (CPO)	1,075	1,109	1,158
Protective orders (CPO and CAO)	1,112	1,121	1,182
Children living away from home	1,170	1,096	1,166
Percentage of Indigenous children placed with kinship or Indigenous carer	57 %	53 %	46 %
Approved carer families	520	604	719

(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

7 July 2008