Far Northern

Zone map

Far North Queensland service centres

Notes:

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.

Far Northern zone data for the years 2006-07 through to 2008-09
	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09
Intake
Intakes	7,053	6,038	6,361
Child concern reports	4,373	4,159	4,609
Notifications	2,680	1,879	1,752
Children subject to a child concern report	3,343	3,351	3,624
Children subject to a notification	2,330	1,765	1,646
Investigation and assessment
Admissions to assessment orders	136	346	538
Temporary assessment orders	56	162	231
Court assessment orders	80	184	307
Substantiations	729	490	410
In need of protection	-	288	265
Not in need of protection	-	202	145
Children subject to a substantiation	642	459	394
Ongoing intervention^(a)
Total children subject to ongoing intervention	-	684	999
Intervention with parental agreement	135	136	266
Child protection orders (CPO)	445	557	733
Children subject to protective orders (CPO and CAO)	453	567	762
Children living away from home	494	608	759
Percentage of Indigenous children placed with kinship or Indigenous carers	68.1%	67.3%	69.0%
Approved carer families^(b)	258	299	365

Notes:

1. The definitions used for each indicator are identified in the relevant tables under Our performance.
(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 This included closing down those records where a carer was no longer caring for a child, or the approval was no longer valid.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.

* Service centres on map last updated December 2007