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6. Accounting for the increase of children in care in western Australia: What can a client information system tell us?

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Bilson, Andrew, Cant, Rosemary L, Harries, Maria, Thorpe, David H, Bilson, Andrew, Cant, Rosemary L, Harries, Maria, and Thorpe, David H

Abstract

This paper analyses a fourteen-year period of Western Australian data from the client information system of the Department for Child Protection and Family Support. Western Australia saw a large increase in the number of children in state care similar to trends across Australia as a whole. The study shows the following trends: changes in response to 'referrals' with particular increases in the number of findings of neglect and increasing proportions of these followed swiftly by entry to care; changes in patterns of entry to care with more children under one-year-old entering; increased length of stay of children in care; and, the high incidence of Aboriginal children entering and remaining in care. The data demonstrate unequivocally that increased 'referrals' are not associated with increased substantiations of harm or 'acts of commission with dangerous intent', but that neglect assessed early in the lives of children was the major precipitant for entry to care and particularly so for Aboriginal infants. [Abstract copyright: Copyright © 2017. Published by Elsevier Ltd.]

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2017

7. Overcrowded housing: One of a constellation of vulnerabilities for child sexual abuse

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Maria Harries, Rosemary L. Cant, Melissa O'Donnell, Scott Sims, Cant, Rosemary L, O'Donnell, Melissa, Sims, Scott, and Harries, Maria

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Child abuse, Adult, Male, Parents, 050103 clinical psychology, Adolescent, child abuse, Substance-Related Disorders, Poison control, Suicide prevention, Cohort Studies, 5. Gender equality, Risk Factors, childhood adversity, Environmental health, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Medicine, Humans, 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences, Risk factor, Child, Proportional Hazards Models, Family Characteristics, business.industry, 05 social sciences, 1. No poverty, Infant, Overcrowding, Child Abuse, Sexual, Western Australia, 16. Peace & justice, Psychiatry and Mental health, Child protection, Sexual abuse, Socioeconomic Factors, Child sexual abuse, Child, Preschool, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Housing, Female, maltreatment, business, 050104 developmental & child psychology
Abstract

Background: Effective prevention of child abuse depends on an understanding of factors associated with the abuse. Increased risk of child sexual abuse has been associated with parental substance use and adverse socio-economic factors such as living in poverty and parental unemployment. This study investigated overcrowding as a potential socio-economic risk factor in child sexual abuse taking into account other socio-economic, child and parental factors. Method: This study used de-identified linked data from health and child protection data collections for the cohort of children born in Western Australia from 1990 to 2009 (n = 524,478). Cox regression was used to estimate adjusted and unadjusted hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals for time to first sexual abuse allegation and first substantiated allegation, relative to the level of overcrowding and controlling for other risk factors. Results: Higher levels of household overcrowding were associated with a 23%–46% increase in the risk of child sexual abuse allegations. Only the highest level of overcrowding was associated with a 40% increased risk of substantiated sexual abuse. Conclusion: The findings suggest that overcrowded living conditions are associated with an increased risk of sexual abuse for some children. This factor needs to be considered alongside other risk factors when assessing and improving child safety. Refereed/Peer-reviewed

Published
2018

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