Children substantiated by Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia - Rate per 1,000
Source: Department of Children, Youth Justice and Multicultural Affairs.
What is being counted
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Child safety data is for the year ending the reference date (12 months of data), population data is as at the reference period end date.
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Children subject to a substantiation: Counts the number of individual children subject to a notification during the reference period, where an investigation and assessment has been finalised and the outcome was recorded as substantiated. If a child is subject to more than one substantiation in the period, the child is counted only once.
- Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia: If a child is subject to more than one substantiation in the period, the child is counted against the ARIA once for their first substantiation.
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Rate per thousand: Refers to the number of children for each of the above categories, divided by the population of children and young people aged 0-17 years of age. Population data is sourced from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and is based on estimated resident population for Queenslanders aged 0-17 years, as at 30 June of the previous year.
Definition notes
- Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia (ARIA): an index of the accessibility of locations to service centres of different size towns. The Geographic areas are given a score and classification based on the road distance to service towns of different sizes.
- Major city: relatively unrestricted accessibility to a wide range of goods, services and opportunities for social interaction.
- Inner regional: some restrictions to accessibility to some goods, services and opportunities for social interaction.
- Outer regional: significantly restricted accessibility to goods, services and opportunities for social interaction.
- Remote: very restricted accessibility to goods, services and opportunities for social interaction.
- Very remote: very little accessibility to goods, services and opportunities for social interaction.