Page 727 - Week 02 - Thursday, 16 February 2017
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(3) What is the average length of time that children have been in (a) foster care, (b) kinship care and (c) residential care.
(4) What is the average age at which these children first received care and protection orders.
(5) How many of these children are (a) female and (b), of these, how many are in (i) foster care, (ii) kinship care and (iii) residential care.
(6) How many of these children are (a) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and (b) non-Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and, of these, how many are in (i) foster care, (ii) kinship care and (iii) residential care.
(7) What percentage of all (a) non-Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and (b) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are currently on care and protection orders in the ACT.
(8) How many frontline case managers are employed in Child and Youth Protection Services in the ACT and what is the turnover rate amongst these staff.
(9) When multiple children from a single family are on care and protection orders, are these siblings always assigned to a single case manager; if not, why not.
Ms Stephen-Smith: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:
(1) Children and young people in out of home care by order status at 30 June 2016.
|
At 30 June 2016 |
On care and protection orders |
Not on a care and protection order |
TOTAL |
|
736 |
12 |
748 |
(2) Children and young people in out of home care by placement type at 30 June 2016.
|
At 30 June 2016 |
Kinship |
Foster |
Residential |
Other |
TOTAL |
|
398 |
264 |
42 |
44 |
748 |
Please note:
The Other figure includes ‘other home-based care’ (defined as care by a non-related person with parental responsibility transferred to them by an Enduring Parental Responsibility (EPR) order or ‘supported’ adoption under section 108A of the Adoption Act 1993), boarding school and supported independent living arrangements. The Kinship figure includes children and young people with a relative who has parental responsibility through an EPR.
(3) Information about how long children and young people have been in each type of care is not readily available, because it is not collected automatically and could only be provided by interrogating individual files and therefore incurring a significant administrative burden. This task would not be possible given the required timeframe.
However, below is a table detailing the children in all out of home care types by the length of time they have been in care at 30 June 2016. Measuring ranges of the time in care is used rather than an average length of stay in each type of care because of the skewed nature of the data, which would render an average meaningless. A child or young person may move between these three types of care (eg being placed in an
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