❓ A WA parliamentary question addresses child abuse presentations at Princess Margaret Hospital, inquiring about protocols, information sharing with the Department for Child Protection, and data on assault injuries. The Minister for Health provides answers, referencing existing procedures and data, while noting limitations in data availability.
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CHILD ABUSE — PRESENTATIONS AT PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL
I refer to the latest childhood injury survey brought and prepared by Kidsafe Western Australia, which showed that between 2001 and 2007 there were 1 764 presentations to Princess Margaret Hospital for injuries classified as intentional, with 1 100 of those being assault injuries. (1) When a child presents to the emergency department with assault injuries, does PMH check with the Department for Child Protection to ascertain whether that family has had any prior contact with the department, or whether there is an open case on the child? (2) What are the protocols between PMH and the Department for Child Protection when a child presents to the hospital and has been abused in any form? (3) What information sharing occurs between PMH and the Department for Child Protection? (4) For the five years from 1 January 2003 to 1 January 2008 how many children were admitted to PMH for each year with assault injuries? (5) For each of those five years, how many of those children assaulted, or the families perpetrating the assaults, were known to the Department for Child Protection? Hon SUE ELLERY
I refer to the latest childhood injury survey brought and prepared by Kidsafe Western Australia, which showed that between 2001 and 2007 there were 1 764 presentations to Princess Margaret Hospital for injuries classified as intentional, with 1 100 of those being assault injuries. (1) When a child presents to the emergency department with assault injuries, does PMH check with the Department for Child Protection to ascertain whether that family has had any prior contact with the department, or whether there is an open case on the child? (2) What are the protocols between PMH and the Department for Child Protection when a child presents to the hospital and has been abused in any form? (3) What information sharing occurs between PMH and the Department for Child Protection? (4) For the five years from 1 January 2003 to 1 January 2008 how many children were admitted to PMH for each year with assault injuries? (5) For each of those five years, how many of those children assaulted, or the families perpetrating the assaults, were known to the Department for Child Protection? Hon SUE ELLERY
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I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. (1) Yes. Notification is via the Child Protection Unit, or, out of hours, via the duty social worker. (2) The relationships between Princess Margaret Hospital and the Department for Child Protection are covered by the “Reciprocal Child Protection Procedures” of 2002 and the Department of Health operational circular OP2102/06 of 18 September 2006. The Department for Child Protection has a statutory role in the protection of children within families. As such, intentional assaults that occurred outside the family—that is, for example, fights between youths—are matters that are not routinely reported via PMH to the Department for Child Protection, but may be reported to police for investigation. The hospital and its staff are responsible for the referral of matters to police and/or the Department for Child Protection, with those agencies then having the responsibility for the conduct of investigations and associated substantiation or not. For some child assault injuries, the perpetrator may not be known, and/or a child or young person may not be prepared to identify them. (3) There is open sharing of information when children are considered at risk. This occurs via summaries of intake meetings undertaken by the Child Protection Unit that are forwarded to the Department for Child Protection by the joint serious injury planning meetings and by the requests for information by the Department for Child Protection under section 23 of the Child and Community Services Act 2004. (4) Of the 1 100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self-inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH emergency department database. I refer the member to the table I will table and have incorporated. (5) This data is not available through Princess Margaret Hospital databases. I seek leave to have the information included in a table in part (4) of the answer incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. The following material was incorporated — 4. Of the 1100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH Emergency Department Database, see table below. 2003 108 2004 117 2005 116 2006 125 2007 100 Total 566
(1) When a child presents to the emergency department with assault injuries, does PMH check with the Department for Child Protection to ascertain whether that family has had any prior contact with the department, or whether there is an open case on the child? (2) What are the protocols between PMH and the Department for Child Protection when a child presents to the hospital and has been abused in any form? (3) What information sharing occurs between PMH and the Department for Child Protection? (4) For the five years from 1 January 2003 to 1 January 2008 how many children were admitted to PMH for each year with assault injuries? (5) For each of those five years, how many of those children assaulted, or the families perpetrating the assaults, were known to the Department for Child Protection? Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. (1) Yes. Notification is via the Child Protection Unit, or, out of hours, via the duty social worker. (2) The relationships between Princess Margaret Hospital and the Department for Child Protection are covered by the “Reciprocal Child Protection Procedures” of 2002 and the Department of Health operational circular OP2102/06 of 18 September 2006. The Department for Child Protection has a statutory role in the protection of children within families. As such, intentional assaults that occurred outside the family—that is, for example, fights between youths—are matters that are not routinely reported via PMH to the Department for Child Protection, but may be reported to police for investigation. The hospital and its staff are responsible for the referral of matters to police and/or the Department for Child Protection, with those agencies then having the responsibility for the conduct of investigations and associated substantiation or not. For some child assault injuries, the perpetrator may not be known, and/or a child or young person may not be prepared to identify them. (3) There is open sharing of information when children are considered at risk. This occurs via summaries of intake meetings undertaken by the Child Protection Unit that are forwarded to the Department for Child Protection by the joint serious injury planning meetings and by the requests for information by the Department for Child Protection under section 23 of the Child and Community Services Act 2004. (4) Of the 1 100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self-inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH emergency department database. I refer the member to the table I will table and have incorporated. (5) This data is not available through Princess Margaret Hospital databases. I seek leave to have the information included in a table in part (4) of the answer incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. The following material was incorporated — 4. Of the 1100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH Emergency Department Database, see table below. 2003 108 2004 117 2005 116 2006 125 2007 100 Total 566
(2) What are the protocols between PMH and the Department for Child Protection when a child presents to the hospital and has been abused in any form? (3) What information sharing occurs between PMH and the Department for Child Protection? (4) For the five years from 1 January 2003 to 1 January 2008 how many children were admitted to PMH for each year with assault injuries? (5) For each of those five years, how many of those children assaulted, or the families perpetrating the assaults, were known to the Department for Child Protection? Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. (1) Yes. Notification is via the Child Protection Unit, or, out of hours, via the duty social worker. (2) The relationships between Princess Margaret Hospital and the Department for Child Protection are covered by the “Reciprocal Child Protection Procedures” of 2002 and the Department of Health operational circular OP2102/06 of 18 September 2006. The Department for Child Protection has a statutory role in the protection of children within families. As such, intentional assaults that occurred outside the family—that is, for example, fights between youths—are matters that are not routinely reported via PMH to the Department for Child Protection, but may be reported to police for investigation. The hospital and its staff are responsible for the referral of matters to police and/or the Department for Child Protection, with those agencies then having the responsibility for the conduct of investigations and associated substantiation or not. For some child assault injuries, the perpetrator may not be known, and/or a child or young person may not be prepared to identify them. (3) There is open sharing of information when children are considered at risk. This occurs via summaries of intake meetings undertaken by the Child Protection Unit that are forwarded to the Department for Child Protection by the joint serious injury planning meetings and by the requests for information by the Department for Child Protection under section 23 of the Child and Community Services Act 2004. (4) Of the 1 100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self-inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH emergency department database. I refer the member to the table I will table and have incorporated. (5) This data is not available through Princess Margaret Hospital databases. I seek leave to have the information included in a table in part (4) of the answer incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. The following material was incorporated — 4. Of the 1100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH Emergency Department Database, see table below. 2003 108 2004 117 2005 116 2006 125 2007 100 Total 566
(3) What information sharing occurs between PMH and the Department for Child Protection? (4) For the five years from 1 January 2003 to 1 January 2008 how many children were admitted to PMH for each year with assault injuries? (5) For each of those five years, how many of those children assaulted, or the families perpetrating the assaults, were known to the Department for Child Protection? Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. (1) Yes. Notification is via the Child Protection Unit, or, out of hours, via the duty social worker. (2) The relationships between Princess Margaret Hospital and the Department for Child Protection are covered by the “Reciprocal Child Protection Procedures” of 2002 and the Department of Health operational circular OP2102/06 of 18 September 2006. The Department for Child Protection has a statutory role in the protection of children within families. As such, intentional assaults that occurred outside the family—that is, for example, fights between youths—are matters that are not routinely reported via PMH to the Department for Child Protection, but may be reported to police for investigation. The hospital and its staff are responsible for the referral of matters to police and/or the Department for Child Protection, with those agencies then having the responsibility for the conduct of investigations and associated substantiation or not. For some child assault injuries, the perpetrator may not be known, and/or a child or young person may not be prepared to identify them. (3) There is open sharing of information when children are considered at risk. This occurs via summaries of intake meetings undertaken by the Child Protection Unit that are forwarded to the Department for Child Protection by the joint serious injury planning meetings and by the requests for information by the Department for Child Protection under section 23 of the Child and Community Services Act 2004. (4) Of the 1 100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self-inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH emergency department database. I refer the member to the table I will table and have incorporated. (5) This data is not available through Princess Margaret Hospital databases. I seek leave to have the information included in a table in part (4) of the answer incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. The following material was incorporated — 4. Of the 1100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH Emergency Department Database, see table below. 2003 108 2004 117 2005 116 2006 125 2007 100 Total 566
(4) For the five years from 1 January 2003 to 1 January 2008 how many children were admitted to PMH for each year with assault injuries? (5) For each of those five years, how many of those children assaulted, or the families perpetrating the assaults, were known to the Department for Child Protection? Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. (1) Yes. Notification is via the Child Protection Unit, or, out of hours, via the duty social worker. (2) The relationships between Princess Margaret Hospital and the Department for Child Protection are covered by the “Reciprocal Child Protection Procedures” of 2002 and the Department of Health operational circular OP2102/06 of 18 September 2006. The Department for Child Protection has a statutory role in the protection of children within families. As such, intentional assaults that occurred outside the family—that is, for example, fights between youths—are matters that are not routinely reported via PMH to the Department for Child Protection, but may be reported to police for investigation. The hospital and its staff are responsible for the referral of matters to police and/or the Department for Child Protection, with those agencies then having the responsibility for the conduct of investigations and associated substantiation or not. For some child assault injuries, the perpetrator may not be known, and/or a child or young person may not be prepared to identify them. (3) There is open sharing of information when children are considered at risk. This occurs via summaries of intake meetings undertaken by the Child Protection Unit that are forwarded to the Department for Child Protection by the joint serious injury planning meetings and by the requests for information by the Department for Child Protection under section 23 of the Child and Community Services Act 2004. (4) Of the 1 100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self-inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH emergency department database. I refer the member to the table I will table and have incorporated. (5) This data is not available through Princess Margaret Hospital databases. I seek leave to have the information included in a table in part (4) of the answer incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. The following material was incorporated — 4. Of the 1100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH Emergency Department Database, see table below. 2003 108 2004 117 2005 116 2006 125 2007 100 Total 566
(5) For each of those five years, how many of those children assaulted, or the families perpetrating the assaults, were known to the Department for Child Protection? Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. (1) Yes. Notification is via the Child Protection Unit, or, out of hours, via the duty social worker. (2) The relationships between Princess Margaret Hospital and the Department for Child Protection are covered by the “Reciprocal Child Protection Procedures” of 2002 and the Department of Health operational circular OP2102/06 of 18 September 2006. The Department for Child Protection has a statutory role in the protection of children within families. As such, intentional assaults that occurred outside the family—that is, for example, fights between youths—are matters that are not routinely reported via PMH to the Department for Child Protection, but may be reported to police for investigation. The hospital and its staff are responsible for the referral of matters to police and/or the Department for Child Protection, with those agencies then having the responsibility for the conduct of investigations and associated substantiation or not. For some child assault injuries, the perpetrator may not be known, and/or a child or young person may not be prepared to identify them. (3) There is open sharing of information when children are considered at risk. This occurs via summaries of intake meetings undertaken by the Child Protection Unit that are forwarded to the Department for Child Protection by the joint serious injury planning meetings and by the requests for information by the Department for Child Protection under section 23 of the Child and Community Services Act 2004. (4) Of the 1 100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self-inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH emergency department database. I refer the member to the table I will table and have incorporated. (5) This data is not available through Princess Margaret Hospital databases. I seek leave to have the information included in a table in part (4) of the answer incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. The following material was incorporated — 4. Of the 1100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH Emergency Department Database, see table below. 2003 108 2004 117 2005 116 2006 125 2007 100 Total 566
Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. (1) Yes. Notification is via the Child Protection Unit, or, out of hours, via the duty social worker. (2) The relationships between Princess Margaret Hospital and the Department for Child Protection are covered by the “Reciprocal Child Protection Procedures” of 2002 and the Department of Health operational circular OP2102/06 of 18 September 2006. The Department for Child Protection has a statutory role in the protection of children within families. As such, intentional assaults that occurred outside the family—that is, for example, fights between youths—are matters that are not routinely reported via PMH to the Department for Child Protection, but may be reported to police for investigation. The hospital and its staff are responsible for the referral of matters to police and/or the Department for Child Protection, with those agencies then having the responsibility for the conduct of investigations and associated substantiation or not. For some child assault injuries, the perpetrator may not be known, and/or a child or young person may not be prepared to identify them. (3) There is open sharing of information when children are considered at risk. This occurs via summaries of intake meetings undertaken by the Child Protection Unit that are forwarded to the Department for Child Protection by the joint serious injury planning meetings and by the requests for information by the Department for Child Protection under section 23 of the Child and Community Services Act 2004. (4) Of the 1 100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self-inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH emergency department database. I refer the member to the table I will table and have incorporated. (5) This data is not available through Princess Margaret Hospital databases. I seek leave to have the information included in a table in part (4) of the answer incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. The following material was incorporated — 4. Of the 1100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH Emergency Department Database, see table below. 2003 108 2004 117 2005 116 2006 125 2007 100 Total 566
I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. (1) Yes. Notification is via the Child Protection Unit, or, out of hours, via the duty social worker. (2) The relationships between Princess Margaret Hospital and the Department for Child Protection are covered by the “Reciprocal Child Protection Procedures” of 2002 and the Department of Health operational circular OP2102/06 of 18 September 2006. The Department for Child Protection has a statutory role in the protection of children within families. As such, intentional assaults that occurred outside the family—that is, for example, fights between youths—are matters that are not routinely reported via PMH to the Department for Child Protection, but may be reported to police for investigation. The hospital and its staff are responsible for the referral of matters to police and/or the Department for Child Protection, with those agencies then having the responsibility for the conduct of investigations and associated substantiation or not. For some child assault injuries, the perpetrator may not be known, and/or a child or young person may not be prepared to identify them. (3) There is open sharing of information when children are considered at risk. This occurs via summaries of intake meetings undertaken by the Child Protection Unit that are forwarded to the Department for Child Protection by the joint serious injury planning meetings and by the requests for information by the Department for Child Protection under section 23 of the Child and Community Services Act 2004. (4) Of the 1 100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self-inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH emergency department database. I refer the member to the table I will table and have incorporated. (5) This data is not available through Princess Margaret Hospital databases. I seek leave to have the information included in a table in part (4) of the answer incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. The following material was incorporated — 4. Of the 1100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH Emergency Department Database, see table below. 2003 108 2004 117 2005 116 2006 125 2007 100 Total 566
(1) Yes. Notification is via the Child Protection Unit, or, out of hours, via the duty social worker. (2) The relationships between Princess Margaret Hospital and the Department for Child Protection are covered by the “Reciprocal Child Protection Procedures” of 2002 and the Department of Health operational circular OP2102/06 of 18 September 2006. The Department for Child Protection has a statutory role in the protection of children within families. As such, intentional assaults that occurred outside the family—that is, for example, fights between youths—are matters that are not routinely reported via PMH to the Department for Child Protection, but may be reported to police for investigation. The hospital and its staff are responsible for the referral of matters to police and/or the Department for Child Protection, with those agencies then having the responsibility for the conduct of investigations and associated substantiation or not. For some child assault injuries, the perpetrator may not be known, and/or a child or young person may not be prepared to identify them. (3) There is open sharing of information when children are considered at risk. This occurs via summaries of intake meetings undertaken by the Child Protection Unit that are forwarded to the Department for Child Protection by the joint serious injury planning meetings and by the requests for information by the Department for Child Protection under section 23 of the Child and Community Services Act 2004. (4) Of the 1 100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self-inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH emergency department database. I refer the member to the table I will table and have incorporated. (5) This data is not available through Princess Margaret Hospital databases. I seek leave to have the information included in a table in part (4) of the answer incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. The following material was incorporated — 4. Of the 1100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH Emergency Department Database, see table below. 2003 108 2004 117 2005 116 2006 125 2007 100 Total 566
(2) The relationships between Princess Margaret Hospital and the Department for Child Protection are covered by the “Reciprocal Child Protection Procedures” of 2002 and the Department of Health operational circular OP2102/06 of 18 September 2006. The Department for Child Protection has a statutory role in the protection of children within families. As such, intentional assaults that occurred outside the family—that is, for example, fights between youths—are matters that are not routinely reported via PMH to the Department for Child Protection, but may be reported to police for investigation. The hospital and its staff are responsible for the referral of matters to police and/or the Department for Child Protection, with those agencies then having the responsibility for the conduct of investigations and associated substantiation or not. For some child assault injuries, the perpetrator may not be known, and/or a child or young person may not be prepared to identify them. (3) There is open sharing of information when children are considered at risk. This occurs via summaries of intake meetings undertaken by the Child Protection Unit that are forwarded to the Department for Child Protection by the joint serious injury planning meetings and by the requests for information by the Department for Child Protection under section 23 of the Child and Community Services Act 2004. (4) Of the 1 100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self-inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH emergency department database. I refer the member to the table I will table and have incorporated. (5) This data is not available through Princess Margaret Hospital databases. I seek leave to have the information included in a table in part (4) of the answer incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. The following material was incorporated — 4. Of the 1100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH Emergency Department Database, see table below. 2003 108 2004 117 2005 116 2006 125 2007 100 Total 566
(3) There is open sharing of information when children are considered at risk. This occurs via summaries of intake meetings undertaken by the Child Protection Unit that are forwarded to the Department for Child Protection by the joint serious injury planning meetings and by the requests for information by the Department for Child Protection under section 23 of the Child and Community Services Act 2004. (4) Of the 1 100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self-inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH emergency department database. I refer the member to the table I will table and have incorporated. (5) This data is not available through Princess Margaret Hospital databases. I seek leave to have the information included in a table in part (4) of the answer incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. The following material was incorporated — 4. Of the 1100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH Emergency Department Database, see table below. 2003 108 2004 117 2005 116 2006 125 2007 100 Total 566
(4) Of the 1 100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self-inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH emergency department database. I refer the member to the table I will table and have incorporated. (5) This data is not available through Princess Margaret Hospital databases. I seek leave to have the information included in a table in part (4) of the answer incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. The following material was incorporated — 4. Of the 1100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH Emergency Department Database, see table below. 2003 108 2004 117 2005 116 2006 125 2007 100 Total 566
(5) This data is not available through Princess Margaret Hospital databases. I seek leave to have the information included in a table in part (4) of the answer incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. The following material was incorporated — 4. Of the 1100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH Emergency Department Database, see table below. 2003 108 2004 117 2005 116 2006 125 2007 100 Total 566
I seek leave to have the information included in a table in part (4) of the answer incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. The following material was incorporated — 4. Of the 1100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH Emergency Department Database, see table below. 2003 108 2004 117 2005 116 2006 125 2007 100 Total 566
Leave granted. The following material was incorporated — 4. Of the 1100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH Emergency Department Database, see table below. 2003 108 2004 117 2005 116 2006 125 2007 100 Total 566
The following material was incorporated — 4. Of the 1100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH Emergency Department Database, see table below. 2003 108 2004 117 2005 116 2006 125 2007 100 Total 566
4. Of the 1100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH Emergency Department Database, see table below. 2003 108 2004 117 2005 116 2006 125 2007 100 Total 566
(1) When a child presents to the emergency department with assault injuries, does PMH check with the Department for Child Protection to ascertain whether that family has had any prior contact with the department, or whether there is an open case on the child? (2) What are the protocols between PMH and the Department for Child Protection when a child presents to the hospital and has been abused in any form? (3) What information sharing occurs between PMH and the Department for Child Protection? (4) For the five years from 1 January 2003 to 1 January 2008 how many children were admitted to PMH for each year with assault injuries? (5) For each of those five years, how many of those children assaulted, or the families perpetrating the assaults, were known to the Department for Child Protection? Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. (1) Yes. Notification is via the Child Protection Unit, or, out of hours, via the duty social worker. (2) The relationships between Princess Margaret Hospital and the Department for Child Protection are covered by the “Reciprocal Child Protection Procedures” of 2002 and the Department of Health operational circular OP2102/06 of 18 September 2006. The Department for Child Protection has a statutory role in the protection of children within families. As such, intentional assaults that occurred outside the family—that is, for example, fights between youths—are matters that are not routinely reported via PMH to the Department for Child Protection, but may be reported to police for investigation. The hospital and its staff are responsible for the referral of matters to police and/or the Department for Child Protection, with those agencies then having the responsibility for the conduct of investigations and associated substantiation or not. For some child assault injuries, the perpetrator may not be known, and/or a child or young person may not be prepared to identify them. (3) There is open sharing of information when children are considered at risk. This occurs via summaries of intake meetings undertaken by the Child Protection Unit that are forwarded to the Department for Child Protection by the joint serious injury planning meetings and by the requests for information by the Department for Child Protection under section 23 of the Child and Community Services Act 2004. (4) Of the 1 100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self-inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH emergency department database. I refer the member to the table I will table and have incorporated. (5) This data is not available through Princess Margaret Hospital databases. I seek leave to have the information included in a table in part (4) of the answer incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. The following material was incorporated — 4. Of the 1100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH Emergency Department Database, see table below. 2003 108 2004 117 2005 116 2006 125 2007 100 Total 566
(2) What are the protocols between PMH and the Department for Child Protection when a child presents to the hospital and has been abused in any form? (3) What information sharing occurs between PMH and the Department for Child Protection? (4) For the five years from 1 January 2003 to 1 January 2008 how many children were admitted to PMH for each year with assault injuries? (5) For each of those five years, how many of those children assaulted, or the families perpetrating the assaults, were known to the Department for Child Protection? Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. (1) Yes. Notification is via the Child Protection Unit, or, out of hours, via the duty social worker. (2) The relationships between Princess Margaret Hospital and the Department for Child Protection are covered by the “Reciprocal Child Protection Procedures” of 2002 and the Department of Health operational circular OP2102/06 of 18 September 2006. The Department for Child Protection has a statutory role in the protection of children within families. As such, intentional assaults that occurred outside the family—that is, for example, fights between youths—are matters that are not routinely reported via PMH to the Department for Child Protection, but may be reported to police for investigation. The hospital and its staff are responsible for the referral of matters to police and/or the Department for Child Protection, with those agencies then having the responsibility for the conduct of investigations and associated substantiation or not. For some child assault injuries, the perpetrator may not be known, and/or a child or young person may not be prepared to identify them. (3) There is open sharing of information when children are considered at risk. This occurs via summaries of intake meetings undertaken by the Child Protection Unit that are forwarded to the Department for Child Protection by the joint serious injury planning meetings and by the requests for information by the Department for Child Protection under section 23 of the Child and Community Services Act 2004. (4) Of the 1 100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self-inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH emergency department database. I refer the member to the table I will table and have incorporated. (5) This data is not available through Princess Margaret Hospital databases. I seek leave to have the information included in a table in part (4) of the answer incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. The following material was incorporated — 4. Of the 1100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH Emergency Department Database, see table below. 2003 108 2004 117 2005 116 2006 125 2007 100 Total 566
(3) What information sharing occurs between PMH and the Department for Child Protection? (4) For the five years from 1 January 2003 to 1 January 2008 how many children were admitted to PMH for each year with assault injuries? (5) For each of those five years, how many of those children assaulted, or the families perpetrating the assaults, were known to the Department for Child Protection? Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. (1) Yes. Notification is via the Child Protection Unit, or, out of hours, via the duty social worker. (2) The relationships between Princess Margaret Hospital and the Department for Child Protection are covered by the “Reciprocal Child Protection Procedures” of 2002 and the Department of Health operational circular OP2102/06 of 18 September 2006. The Department for Child Protection has a statutory role in the protection of children within families. As such, intentional assaults that occurred outside the family—that is, for example, fights between youths—are matters that are not routinely reported via PMH to the Department for Child Protection, but may be reported to police for investigation. The hospital and its staff are responsible for the referral of matters to police and/or the Department for Child Protection, with those agencies then having the responsibility for the conduct of investigations and associated substantiation or not. For some child assault injuries, the perpetrator may not be known, and/or a child or young person may not be prepared to identify them. (3) There is open sharing of information when children are considered at risk. This occurs via summaries of intake meetings undertaken by the Child Protection Unit that are forwarded to the Department for Child Protection by the joint serious injury planning meetings and by the requests for information by the Department for Child Protection under section 23 of the Child and Community Services Act 2004. (4) Of the 1 100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self-inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH emergency department database. I refer the member to the table I will table and have incorporated. (5) This data is not available through Princess Margaret Hospital databases. I seek leave to have the information included in a table in part (4) of the answer incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. The following material was incorporated — 4. Of the 1100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH Emergency Department Database, see table below. 2003 108 2004 117 2005 116 2006 125 2007 100 Total 566
(4) For the five years from 1 January 2003 to 1 January 2008 how many children were admitted to PMH for each year with assault injuries? (5) For each of those five years, how many of those children assaulted, or the families perpetrating the assaults, were known to the Department for Child Protection? Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. (1) Yes. Notification is via the Child Protection Unit, or, out of hours, via the duty social worker. (2) The relationships between Princess Margaret Hospital and the Department for Child Protection are covered by the “Reciprocal Child Protection Procedures” of 2002 and the Department of Health operational circular OP2102/06 of 18 September 2006. The Department for Child Protection has a statutory role in the protection of children within families. As such, intentional assaults that occurred outside the family—that is, for example, fights between youths—are matters that are not routinely reported via PMH to the Department for Child Protection, but may be reported to police for investigation. The hospital and its staff are responsible for the referral of matters to police and/or the Department for Child Protection, with those agencies then having the responsibility for the conduct of investigations and associated substantiation or not. For some child assault injuries, the perpetrator may not be known, and/or a child or young person may not be prepared to identify them. (3) There is open sharing of information when children are considered at risk. This occurs via summaries of intake meetings undertaken by the Child Protection Unit that are forwarded to the Department for Child Protection by the joint serious injury planning meetings and by the requests for information by the Department for Child Protection under section 23 of the Child and Community Services Act 2004. (4) Of the 1 100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self-inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH emergency department database. I refer the member to the table I will table and have incorporated. (5) This data is not available through Princess Margaret Hospital databases. I seek leave to have the information included in a table in part (4) of the answer incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. The following material was incorporated — 4. Of the 1100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH Emergency Department Database, see table below. 2003 108 2004 117 2005 116 2006 125 2007 100 Total 566
(5) For each of those five years, how many of those children assaulted, or the families perpetrating the assaults, were known to the Department for Child Protection? Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. (1) Yes. Notification is via the Child Protection Unit, or, out of hours, via the duty social worker. (2) The relationships between Princess Margaret Hospital and the Department for Child Protection are covered by the “Reciprocal Child Protection Procedures” of 2002 and the Department of Health operational circular OP2102/06 of 18 September 2006. The Department for Child Protection has a statutory role in the protection of children within families. As such, intentional assaults that occurred outside the family—that is, for example, fights between youths—are matters that are not routinely reported via PMH to the Department for Child Protection, but may be reported to police for investigation. The hospital and its staff are responsible for the referral of matters to police and/or the Department for Child Protection, with those agencies then having the responsibility for the conduct of investigations and associated substantiation or not. For some child assault injuries, the perpetrator may not be known, and/or a child or young person may not be prepared to identify them. (3) There is open sharing of information when children are considered at risk. This occurs via summaries of intake meetings undertaken by the Child Protection Unit that are forwarded to the Department for Child Protection by the joint serious injury planning meetings and by the requests for information by the Department for Child Protection under section 23 of the Child and Community Services Act 2004. (4) Of the 1 100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self-inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH emergency department database. I refer the member to the table I will table and have incorporated. (5) This data is not available through Princess Margaret Hospital databases. I seek leave to have the information included in a table in part (4) of the answer incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. The following material was incorporated — 4. Of the 1100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH Emergency Department Database, see table below. 2003 108 2004 117 2005 116 2006 125 2007 100 Total 566
Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. (1) Yes. Notification is via the Child Protection Unit, or, out of hours, via the duty social worker. (2) The relationships between Princess Margaret Hospital and the Department for Child Protection are covered by the “Reciprocal Child Protection Procedures” of 2002 and the Department of Health operational circular OP2102/06 of 18 September 2006. The Department for Child Protection has a statutory role in the protection of children within families. As such, intentional assaults that occurred outside the family—that is, for example, fights between youths—are matters that are not routinely reported via PMH to the Department for Child Protection, but may be reported to police for investigation. The hospital and its staff are responsible for the referral of matters to police and/or the Department for Child Protection, with those agencies then having the responsibility for the conduct of investigations and associated substantiation or not. For some child assault injuries, the perpetrator may not be known, and/or a child or young person may not be prepared to identify them. (3) There is open sharing of information when children are considered at risk. This occurs via summaries of intake meetings undertaken by the Child Protection Unit that are forwarded to the Department for Child Protection by the joint serious injury planning meetings and by the requests for information by the Department for Child Protection under section 23 of the Child and Community Services Act 2004. (4) Of the 1 100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self-inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH emergency department database. I refer the member to the table I will table and have incorporated. (5) This data is not available through Princess Margaret Hospital databases. I seek leave to have the information included in a table in part (4) of the answer incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. The following material was incorporated — 4. Of the 1100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH Emergency Department Database, see table below. 2003 108 2004 117 2005 116 2006 125 2007 100 Total 566
I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. (1) Yes. Notification is via the Child Protection Unit, or, out of hours, via the duty social worker. (2) The relationships between Princess Margaret Hospital and the Department for Child Protection are covered by the “Reciprocal Child Protection Procedures” of 2002 and the Department of Health operational circular OP2102/06 of 18 September 2006. The Department for Child Protection has a statutory role in the protection of children within families. As such, intentional assaults that occurred outside the family—that is, for example, fights between youths—are matters that are not routinely reported via PMH to the Department for Child Protection, but may be reported to police for investigation. The hospital and its staff are responsible for the referral of matters to police and/or the Department for Child Protection, with those agencies then having the responsibility for the conduct of investigations and associated substantiation or not. For some child assault injuries, the perpetrator may not be known, and/or a child or young person may not be prepared to identify them. (3) There is open sharing of information when children are considered at risk. This occurs via summaries of intake meetings undertaken by the Child Protection Unit that are forwarded to the Department for Child Protection by the joint serious injury planning meetings and by the requests for information by the Department for Child Protection under section 23 of the Child and Community Services Act 2004. (4) Of the 1 100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self-inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH emergency department database. I refer the member to the table I will table and have incorporated. (5) This data is not available through Princess Margaret Hospital databases. I seek leave to have the information included in a table in part (4) of the answer incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. The following material was incorporated — 4. Of the 1100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH Emergency Department Database, see table below. 2003 108 2004 117 2005 116 2006 125 2007 100 Total 566
(1) Yes. Notification is via the Child Protection Unit, or, out of hours, via the duty social worker. (2) The relationships between Princess Margaret Hospital and the Department for Child Protection are covered by the “Reciprocal Child Protection Procedures” of 2002 and the Department of Health operational circular OP2102/06 of 18 September 2006. The Department for Child Protection has a statutory role in the protection of children within families. As such, intentional assaults that occurred outside the family—that is, for example, fights between youths—are matters that are not routinely reported via PMH to the Department for Child Protection, but may be reported to police for investigation. The hospital and its staff are responsible for the referral of matters to police and/or the Department for Child Protection, with those agencies then having the responsibility for the conduct of investigations and associated substantiation or not. For some child assault injuries, the perpetrator may not be known, and/or a child or young person may not be prepared to identify them. (3) There is open sharing of information when children are considered at risk. This occurs via summaries of intake meetings undertaken by the Child Protection Unit that are forwarded to the Department for Child Protection by the joint serious injury planning meetings and by the requests for information by the Department for Child Protection under section 23 of the Child and Community Services Act 2004. (4) Of the 1 100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self-inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH emergency department database. I refer the member to the table I will table and have incorporated. (5) This data is not available through Princess Margaret Hospital databases. I seek leave to have the information included in a table in part (4) of the answer incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. The following material was incorporated — 4. Of the 1100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH Emergency Department Database, see table below. 2003 108 2004 117 2005 116 2006 125 2007 100 Total 566
(2) The relationships between Princess Margaret Hospital and the Department for Child Protection are covered by the “Reciprocal Child Protection Procedures” of 2002 and the Department of Health operational circular OP2102/06 of 18 September 2006. The Department for Child Protection has a statutory role in the protection of children within families. As such, intentional assaults that occurred outside the family—that is, for example, fights between youths—are matters that are not routinely reported via PMH to the Department for Child Protection, but may be reported to police for investigation. The hospital and its staff are responsible for the referral of matters to police and/or the Department for Child Protection, with those agencies then having the responsibility for the conduct of investigations and associated substantiation or not. For some child assault injuries, the perpetrator may not be known, and/or a child or young person may not be prepared to identify them. (3) There is open sharing of information when children are considered at risk. This occurs via summaries of intake meetings undertaken by the Child Protection Unit that are forwarded to the Department for Child Protection by the joint serious injury planning meetings and by the requests for information by the Department for Child Protection under section 23 of the Child and Community Services Act 2004. (4) Of the 1 100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self-inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH emergency department database. I refer the member to the table I will table and have incorporated. (5) This data is not available through Princess Margaret Hospital databases. I seek leave to have the information included in a table in part (4) of the answer incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. The following material was incorporated — 4. Of the 1100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH Emergency Department Database, see table below. 2003 108 2004 117 2005 116 2006 125 2007 100 Total 566
(3) There is open sharing of information when children are considered at risk. This occurs via summaries of intake meetings undertaken by the Child Protection Unit that are forwarded to the Department for Child Protection by the joint serious injury planning meetings and by the requests for information by the Department for Child Protection under section 23 of the Child and Community Services Act 2004. (4) Of the 1 100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self-inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH emergency department database. I refer the member to the table I will table and have incorporated. (5) This data is not available through Princess Margaret Hospital databases. I seek leave to have the information included in a table in part (4) of the answer incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. The following material was incorporated — 4. Of the 1100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH Emergency Department Database, see table below. 2003 108 2004 117 2005 116 2006 125 2007 100 Total 566
(4) Of the 1 100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self-inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH emergency department database. I refer the member to the table I will table and have incorporated. (5) This data is not available through Princess Margaret Hospital databases. I seek leave to have the information included in a table in part (4) of the answer incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. The following material was incorporated — 4. Of the 1100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH Emergency Department Database, see table below. 2003 108 2004 117 2005 116 2006 125 2007 100 Total 566
(5) This data is not available through Princess Margaret Hospital databases. I seek leave to have the information included in a table in part (4) of the answer incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. The following material was incorporated — 4. Of the 1100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH Emergency Department Database, see table below. 2003 108 2004 117 2005 116 2006 125 2007 100 Total 566
I seek leave to have the information included in a table in part (4) of the answer incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. The following material was incorporated — 4. Of the 1100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH Emergency Department Database, see table below. 2003 108 2004 117 2005 116 2006 125 2007 100 Total 566
Leave granted. The following material was incorporated — 4. Of the 1100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH Emergency Department Database, see table below. 2003 108 2004 117 2005 116 2006 125 2007 100 Total 566
The following material was incorporated — 4. Of the 1100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH Emergency Department Database, see table below. 2003 108 2004 117 2005 116 2006 125 2007 100 Total 566
4. Of the 1100 intentional assault injuries recorded for the period in question, 662 cases were found to be self inflicted injuries. The remaining 566 episodes of assault were recorded in the PMH Emergency Department Database, see table below. 2003 108 2004 117 2005 116 2006 125 2007 100 Total 566
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