Northern

Zone map

Northern 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.

Northern zone data for the years 2006-07 through to 2008-09
	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09
Intake
Intakes	6,734	6,327	7,323
Child concern reports	3,606	4,272	4,850
Notifications	3,128	2,055	2,473
Children subject to a child concern report	2,651	3,083	3,442
Children subject to a notification	2,570	1,784	2,122
Investigation and assessment
Admissions to assessment orders	141	233	294
Temporary assessment orders	50	112	114
Court assessment orders	91	121	180
Substantiations	1,322	1,138	1,005
In need of protection	-	420	557
Not in need of protection	-	718	448
Children subject to a substantiation	1,156	1,017	882
Ongoing intervention^(a)
Total children subject to ongoing intervention	-	749	1,036
Intervention with parental agreement	132	167	319
Child protection orders (CPO)	517	608	717
Children subject to protective orders (CPO and CAO)	529	616	739
Children living away from home	582	640	703
Percentage of Indigenous children placed with kinship or Indigenous carers	70.8%	69.6%	71.5%
Approved carer families^(b)	248	276	323

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 This included closing down those records where a carer was no longer caring for a child, or the approval was no longer valid.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