Children in out of home care in NSW are twenty-five times more likely to die than children living at home with parents
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- Category: NSW Ombudsman
- Written by Michael Hart
447,000 children under the age of eighteen were reported to DoCS in 2009. [1]
This means that twenty-seven percent of the total number of children in the state [2] were reported.
This also means there are about 1.7 million children in the state of NSW (Equation = 447,000 * (100/27)).
There are 16,523 in out of home care (foster care). [3][4]
That represents 1% (0.9848%) of the total number of children in the state are in foster care.
Now look at this article [5] [6]
Out of the fifty-seven children that died at home, thirty of them were known to DoCS.
However, fifty-seven children died at home, and another twenty children died in out of home care.
This means that seventy-seven children died, and twenty of them were in foster care
E = (20/77) is about twenty-six percent.
This means that the one percent of the children in out of home care, are twenty-five times more likely to die, than those children at home.
[1] http://www.community.nsw.gov.au/docswr/_assets/main/documents/research_estimate_children_childwelfare.pdf (See attached pdf file).
[2] Refer same article – page 7
[3] Refer same article – page 4
[4] http://www.community.nsw.gov.au/docswr/_assets/main/documents/research_estimate_children_childwelfare.pdf
[5] http://www.dailyexaminer.com.au/story/2011/08/24/30-dead-children-known-to-docs-ombudsman/
[6] http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sydney-nsw/nsw-ombudsman-bruce-barbour-said-30-children-at-higih-risk-of-abuse-killed-known-to-department-of-community-services/story-e6freuzi-1226121442242
