North Queensland region

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Regional map

Northern Queensland service centres

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 no.3235.0.55.001) unpublished data.

North Queensland regional data for 2009-10 to 2010-11
	2009-10	2010-11
Intake
Intakes	12,094	12,687
Child concern reports	10,076	10,517
Notifications	2,018	2,170
Children subject to a child concern report	6,636	6,700
Children subject to a notification	1,804	1,917

Investigation and assessment
Admissions to assessment orders	302	316
Temporary assessment orders	169	172
Court assessment orders	133	144
Substantiations	1,145	1,077
In need of protection	783	782
Not in need of protection	362	295
Children subject to a substantiation	1,001	955

Ongoing intervention ^(a)
Total children subject to ongoing intervention	1,375	1,428
Intervention with parental agreement	397	364 ^(c)
Child protection orders (CPO)	978	1,064
Children subject to protective orders (CPO and CAO)	984	1,074
Children living away from home	962	1,021
Percentage of Indigenous children living away from home placed with kin, other Indigenous carers or Indigenous residential care services	55.5%	55.7%
Approved carer families ^(b)	466	498

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 This included closing down those records where a carer was no longer caring for a child, or the approval was no longer valid.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.