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Our performance

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  • Child Concern Reports data
  • Notifications data
• Investigation and assessment phase
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  • 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
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* Service centres on map last updated December 2007.

Area and population (a)

Area Km2	564,669
Total population	579,171
Population aged 18+	431,056
Population aged 0-17	148,115

(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

Central zone data for the years 2005-06 through to 2007-08 (a)

	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
Intake
Intakes	8,141	10,333	9,688
Child concern reports	3,710	6,501	6,941
Notifications	4,431	3,832	2,747
Other protective advice	n/a	n/a	n/a
Children notified	3,420	3,330	2,510
Investigation and assessment
Admissions to assessment orders	478	476	456
Temporary assessment orders	138	115	187
Court assessment orders	340	361	269
Notifications requiring investigation by outcome	4,431	3,832	2,173
Investigations finalised	2,273	2,720	2,157
Substantiations	1,382	1,329	986
Unsubstantiations	809	1,317	1,111
No investigation and assessment outcome	82	74	60
Investigations not yet finalised	2,158	1,112	16
Children subject to substantiations	1,100	1,167	921
Ongoing intervention (b)
Child protection orders (CPO)	1,031	1,076	1,167
Protective orders (CPO and CAO)	1,056	1,110	1,182
Children living away from home	1,098	1,074	1,178
Percentage of Indigenous children placed with kinship or Indigenous carer	68 %	63 %	62 %
Approved carer families	478	489	565

(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

20 February 2009