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17 years

• Each child is only counted once.
• Only children in out-of-home care at 30 June are counted.
• Age is calculated as at 30 June.
• The denominator includes all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children who were in out-of-home care at 30 June and were also required by jurisdictional policy or legislation to have a current, documented and approved cultural support plan on the night of 30 June (as per specifications at Child—cultural support plan required indicator, yes/no/not applicable/not stated/inadequately described code N.
• Time in out-of-home care is calculated as time, at 30 June, from the beginning of the child’s latest continuous out-of-home care episode. This is not necessarily the child’s first entry to out-of-home care. Any out-of-home care placement beginning less than 60 days from the end of a prior placement is treated as a continuation the child’s out-of-home care episode.

100 × (Numerator ÷ Denominator)

The number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children aged 0–17 years, in out-of-home care who have a current documented and approved cultural support plan at 30 June.

The number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children aged 0–17 years, in out-of-home care who are required to have a current documented and approved cultural support plan at 30 June.

2016–17 to 2018–19

By state and territory and:

• Currency of cultural support plan
• Time in out-of-home care.

Comparability with similar reporting

This indicator has been derived using a similar approach to that used for the National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children Indicator (NFPAC) 5.4 and National Out-of-Home Care Standards (NOOHCS) Indicator 10.1 (AIHW 2020b), both of which report on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children aged 0–17 years in care who have cultural support plans. ATSICPP Indicator 2.2, however, is different to these indicators in the following ways:

• Scope: ATSICPP Indicator 2.2 is limited to children in out-of-home care, whereas the NFPAC and NOOHCS indicators have a broader scope that includes children in specialist homelessness services, disability facilities, juvenile detention and self-placed or homeless children.
• Disaggregations: ATSICPP Indicator 2.2 is disaggregated by state or territory and time in out-of-home care. The NFPAC and NOOHCS indicators are reported at the national level only.

Time in out-of-home care

For this indicator, the ‘time in out-of-home care’ disaggregation provides a measure of how many children who have been in out-of-home care for different amounts of time have current documented and approved cultural support plans.

The disaggregation does not indicate how long it has taken from a child’s entry to out-of-home care to approve their cultural support plan—it is not possible to determine the date of approval of cultural support plans with available data.

Fourth Action Plan under the National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children 2009–2020

Australian Institute for Health and Welfare (AIHW)