Report says Aboriginal kids now account for 43.8% of children in out-of home care, up from 38.4%
government has been lashed for effectively abandoning its own strategy to reduce the representation of Aboriginal children in out-of-home care and failing its own targets.
The ombudsman found that by 2022 Aboriginal children were 11 times more likely than non-Indigenous children to be in out-of-home care – up from 9.3 in 2017 – and the department had not met any of its four targets. “[The department] did not report on what had been achieved by the AOS in the time it was operating, and nor did it announce that the strategy was being abandoned or why.”When the strategy was first announced in 2017, there were 6,839 Aboriginal children in out-of-home care. They accounted for 38.4% of all children in the system.
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