Ipswich and Western

Zone map

Ipswich and Western 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.

Ipswich and Western zone data for the years 2006-07 through to 2008-09
	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09
Intake
Intakes	8,815	8,762	11,531
Child concern reports	5,416	5,897	9,373
Notifications	3,399	2,865	2,158
Children subject to a child concern report	4,232	4,501	6,769
Children subject to a notification	2,882	2,587	1,959
Investigation and assessment
Admissions to assessment orders	305	440	652
Temporary assessment orders	67	176	306
Court assessment orders	238	264	346
Substantiations	1,050	1,161	1,085
In need of protection	-	646	699
Not in need of protection	-	515	386
Children subject to a substantiation	923	1,085	993
Ongoing intervention^(a)
Total children subject to ongoing intervention	-	1,427	1,972
Intervention with parental agreement	152	238	497
Child protection orders (CPO)	1,021	1,207	1,475
Children subject to protective orders (CPO and CAO)	1,049	1,220	1,495
Children living away from home	1,064	1,226	1,388
Percentage of Indigenous children placed with kinship or Indigenous carers	46.5%	43.7%	46.3%
Approved carer families^(b)	511	585	638

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 This included closing down those records where a carer was no longer caring for a child, or the approval was no longer valid.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