Child Protection Notifications have tripled in the last 10 years

Child Protection Notifications have tripled in the last 10 years

In the last 10 years, the number of child protection notifications nationwide has tripled, from 103,302 in 1998-1999 to 317,526 in 2007-2008.

By contrast, substantiated findings have doubled from 24,732 in 1999-2000 (there was a problem with the Northern Territory statistics in 1998-1999) to 55,120 in 2007-2008.

A child may be the subject of more than one notification – in 2007-08, the 317,526 notifications recorded during the financial year concerned 195,387 children.

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