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17 years

1. Each child is only counted once.
2. Only children in out-of-home care at 30 June are counted.
3. Age is calculated as at 30 June.
4. For the numerator, only children living with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander relatives or kin or other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander carers are counted.
5. ‘Other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander carers’ excludes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander family group homes and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander residential care. Children in these placements are included in the denominator and reported in data tables as being ‘In another care arrangement’.
6. Children for whom the relationship of carer was not stated are included in the denominator.

100 × (Numerator ÷ Denominator)

The number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children aged 0–17, in out-of-home care who were living with relatives, kin or other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander carers at 30 June.

The number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children aged 0–17, in out-of-home care at 30 June.

2016–17 to 2019–20

By state and territory and by care giver type.

Comparability of caregiver type disaggregations across jurisdictions

As with Indicator 1.1, jurisdictional differences in how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kin are defined and/or recorded may affect the comparability of caregiver type disaggregations across states and territories.

For the Northern Territory, as with Indicator 1.1, counts of children living with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander relatives or kin or other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander caregivers only include children for whom the process of making a placement decision was considered by caseworkers to be in accordance with the ATSICPP. This means there may have been a higher number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children living with Indigenous relatives or kin or other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander caregivers than is counted in this indicator.

Comparability with similar reporting

As with Indicator 1.1, the placement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children by caregiver type are also reported in Child protection Australia 2019–20 Table S5.12 (AIHW 2020a), the Report on Government Services 2020 Table 16A.21 (Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision 2020) and NFPAC Indicator 5.2/NOOHCS Indicator 3.1 (AIHW 2020b). ATSICPP Indicator 1.2 differs from these reports in one or more of the following ways:

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander residential care and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander family group homes are not counted in the ‘Other Indigenous caregiver’ category. This is on the basis that residential care and family group homes are very low order placements in the ATSICPP placement hierarchy. Children in these placement types are counted in the ‘In another care arrangement’ category.
• Children in independent living arrangements are counted in the ‘In another care arrangement’ category.
• Children for whom caregiver type was not known are counted in totals.
• Only children who are in out-of-home care as per the national definition of out-of-home care are counted.

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

Australian Institute for Health and Welfare (AIHW)