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| Web resource: | https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/youth-justice/young-people-youth-justice-supervision-2022-23/summary |
| Type: | Report |
| Title: | Young people under youth justice supervision and in child protection 2022–23 |
| Authors: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) |
| Keywords: | Child Abuse and Neglect;Children and Young People;Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples;Impacts of Violence;Data and Statistics;Drivers of Violence;Risk Factors for Violence;Child Protection Services;Courts and Legal Processes;Legal and Justice Responses;Systems Responses;Early Intervention |
| Topic: | Children and young people
Data and statistics
Drivers of violence
Impacts of violence
Systems responses |
| Population: | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
Children and young people |
| Year: | Oct-2024 |
| Publisher: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) |
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This report examines the interactions between young people under youth justice supervision in Australia during the period 2022–23 and their previous involvement with the child protection system. Findings highlight a significant overlap between youth justice supervision and child protection interactions, with 65% of the 9,068 young people under youth justice supervision having had an interaction with child protection services in the previous decade. This interaction was more prevalent among young people in detention (70%) compared to those in community-based supervision (66%), and was especially pronounced among First Nations youth and females.
The analysis reveals that younger individuals at their first youth justice supervision, particularly those beginning at age 10, had a higher likelihood (94%) of child protection system involvement. Additionally, nearly half of the young people in both community-based supervision and detention had a substantiated notification for abuse, with emotional abuse and neglect being the most common types. The report underscores the complex interconnections between youth justice supervision, child maltreatment, and systemic factors affecting vulnerable young populations in Australia, advocating for informed policy and support strategies tailored to address these intersecting issues.
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Key findings
- Research shows that children and young people who have been maltreated are at greater risk of engaging in criminal activity and of entering the youth justice system.
- Using data from the child protection and youth justice supervision linked data collection, this report, the eighth in the series, presents information on young people under youth justice supervision during 2022–23 who had an interaction with the child protection system in the 10 years between 1 July 2013 and 30 June 2023.
- Almost two-thirds of young people under youth justice supervision during 2022–23 had an interaction with the child protection system in the last 10 years.
- A higher proportion of young people in detention (70%) had an interaction with the child protection system in the last 10 years than young people in community-based supervision (66%).
- A higher proportion of females than males under youth justice supervision had an interaction with the child protection system.
- The younger a person was when they first entered youth justice supervision, the more likely they were to have had an interaction with the child protection system.
- About 3 in 4 First Nations young people under youth justice supervision had an interaction with the child protection system.
- First Nations young people were 26 times as likely as non-Indigenous young people to have been under youth justice supervision during 2022–23 and to have had an interaction with the child protection system in the last 10 years (211 per 10,000 compared with 8.1 per 10,000, respectively).
- Almost two-thirds of young people under youth justice supervision during 2022–23 had been the subject of an investigated notification in the last 10 years.
- About 1 in 2 young people under youth justice supervision were the subject of a substantiated notification for any type of abuse.
- Substantiations of emotional abuse and neglect were most common for young people under community-based supervision (50% and 45%, respectively) and in detention (46% and 48%, respectively) during 2022–23 who had been the subject of one or more substantiated notifications of abuse in the last 10 years.
- Just over a quarter of young people under youth justice supervision during 2022–23 were placed on a care and protection order in the last 10 years.
- Of those young people under community-based supervision who had been on a care and protection order in the last 10 years, most had been on a finalised guardianship or custody order (80%), with a smaller proportion on a third-party parental responsibility order (19%).
- Of those young people in detention who had been on a care and protection order in the last 10 years, most had been on a finalised guardianship or custody order (80%), with a smaller proportion having been on a finalised supervisory order (15%).
- About 1 in 4 young people under youth justice supervision had at least one placement in out-of-home care at some point in the last 10 years; of these, about two-thirds had at least one placement in residential care.
- Almost 2 in 5 young people under community-based supervision who had been in out-of-home care had 5 or more placements.
| Ref Id: | CSI 030 |
| URI: | https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/22847 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-923272-24-8 (Online) |
| Appears in Collections: | New Australian Research: October 2024
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