❓ Hon Stephen Dawson asks about the Department for Child Protection and Family Support's performance against its KPI for completing child safety and wellbeing assessments within 30 days, broken down by region and age. The answer reveals significant regional variations and some age-related trends in assessment completion rates.
AnsweredQoN 3860Legislative Council
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I refer to page 13 of the 2014-2015 Department for Child Protection and Family Support Annual Report , which advises that the KPI for the proportion of child safety and wellbeing assessments with an outcome recorded within 30 days was 45 per cent, and I ask: (a) what was the proportion of child safety and wellbeing assessments completed within 30 days, by region; and (b) what was the proportion of child safety and wellbeing assessments completed within 30 days, by age?
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Answered
7 April 2016
Responded by
Minister for Child Protection
Response time
42 days
(a) In 2014-15, the proportion of safety and wellbeing assessments completed with an outcome recorded within 30 days, by district, is as follows:
Armadale 35 per cent
Cannington 50 per cent
Crisis Care 95 per cent
East Kimberley 59 per cent
Fremantle 59 per cent
Goldfields 46 per cent
Great Southern 48 per cent
Joondalup 40 per cent
Midland 28 per cent
Mirrabooka 17 per cent
Murchison 52 per cent
Peel 32 per cent
Perth 27 per cent
Pilbara 25 per cent
Rockingham 64 per cent
South West 63 per cent
West Kimberley 23 per cent
Wheatbelt 41 per cent.
(b) In 2014-15 the proportion of child safety and wellbeing assessments completed with an outcome within 30 days, by the age of the child at the commencement of the assessment, is as follows:
Less than 1 40 per cent
Age 1 48 per cent
Age 2 45 per cent
Age 3 45 per cent
Age 4 46 per cent
Age 5 43 per cent
Age 6 43 per cent
Age 7 43 per cent
Age 8 44 per cent
Age 9 44 per cent
Age 10 40 per cent
Age 11 44 per cent
Age 12 47 per cent
Age 13 47 per cent
Age 14 48 per cent
Age 15 50 per cent
Age 16 53 per cent
Age 17 57 per cent
Armadale 35 per cent
Cannington 50 per cent
Crisis Care 95 per cent
East Kimberley 59 per cent
Fremantle 59 per cent
Goldfields 46 per cent
Great Southern 48 per cent
Joondalup 40 per cent
Midland 28 per cent
Mirrabooka 17 per cent
Murchison 52 per cent
Peel 32 per cent
Perth 27 per cent
Pilbara 25 per cent
Rockingham 64 per cent
South West 63 per cent
West Kimberley 23 per cent
Wheatbelt 41 per cent.
(b) In 2014-15 the proportion of child safety and wellbeing assessments completed with an outcome within 30 days, by the age of the child at the commencement of the assessment, is as follows:
Less than 1 40 per cent
Age 1 48 per cent
Age 2 45 per cent
Age 3 45 per cent
Age 4 46 per cent
Age 5 43 per cent
Age 6 43 per cent
Age 7 43 per cent
Age 8 44 per cent
Age 9 44 per cent
Age 10 40 per cent
Age 11 44 per cent
Age 12 47 per cent
Age 13 47 per cent
Age 14 48 per cent
Age 15 50 per cent
Age 16 53 per cent
Age 17 57 per cent
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