Brisbane region

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Regional map

Brisbane Region

Notes:

Estimated residential population as at 30/6/2009 based on Australian Bureau of Statistics, Population by Age and Sex, Australia and States (Cat. no.3235.0.55.001) unpublished data.

Brisbane regional data for 2009-10 to 2010-11
	2009-10	2010-11
Intake
Intakes	10,150	12,926
Child concern reports	7,334	10,542
Notifications	2,816	2,384
Children subject to a child concern report	5,586	7,229
Children subject to a notification	2,533	2,149

Investigation and assessment
Admissions to assessment orders	349	284
Temporary assessment orders	158	139
Court assessment orders	191	145
Substantiations	1,129	963
In need of protection	761	671
Not in need of protection	368	292
Children subject to a substantiation	995	858

Ongoing intervention ^(a)
Total children subject to ongoing intervention	1,385	1,338
Intervention with parental agreement	365	334 ^(c)
Child protection orders (CPO)	1,020	1,004
Children subject to protective orders (CPO and CAO)	1,034	1,017
Children living away from home	1,025	989
Percentage of Indigenous children living away from home placed with kin, other Indigenous carers or Indigenous residential care services	54.7%	51.7%
Approved carer families^(b)	535	519

Notes:

1. The definitions used for each indicator are identified in the relevant tables on the Our performance site.
(a) Figures are point in time, as at final day of reference period.
(b) From 31 August 2009, enhancements to the Integrated Client Management System (ICMS) took place, including an audit and cleansing of carer records. This included closing down those records where a carer was no longer caring for a child, or the approval was no longer valid. As a result, carer families data reported for 30 September 2009 and onwards are not comparable to previous years. If the enhancements to ICMS had not occurred, it is estimated the number of carer families would have increased over 30 June 2009 levels by approximately 70 carer families per quarter. For example, as at 30 September 2009 the number of carer families would have been approximately 4,150.
(c) Prior to 2010-11 reporting, an audit and cleansing of intervention with parental agreement records in the Integrated Client Management System (ICMS) took place. This included closing down historical records where a child was no longer subject to intervention with parental agreement. As a result, data reported for 30 June 2011 and onwards is not comparable to previous years.