A parliamentary question requesting a breakdown of children in state care by suburb/electorate. The answer provides figures by district instead, citing data extraction difficulties.

AnsweredQoN 2752Legislative Assembly
Asked
13 August 2014
Portfolio
Child Protection

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Can the Minister please provide the numbers of children currently in state care that reside in each suburb or electorate in Western Australia?

AnswerView source ↗

Answered
17 September 2014
Responded by
Parliamentary Secretary representing the Minister for Child Protection
Response time
35 days
As at 31 July 2014 there were 4,256 children and young people in the care of the Chief Executive Officer of the Department for Child Protection and Family Support.
The Department's client information management system records a child's address but this information is not easily extractable for the purposes of reporting data at an aggregated level by suburb or electorate. Therefore information has been provided by district:
Armadale - 435
Cannington - 351
Fremantle - 269
Joondalup - 304
Midland - 359
Mirrabooka - 327
Perth - 258
Rockingham - 272
East Kimberley - 110
Goldfields - 179
Great Southern - 191
Murchison - 180
Peel - 205
Pilbara - 174
South West - 272
West Kimberley - 189
Wheatbelt - 170
Fostering & Adoption - 11.

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