Number of Aboriginal Children in Protection Increasing, Despite More Funding

Out of every 1,000 Indigenous children, 72 are now subject to care and protection orders, the Australian Institute of Health and Wellbeing says.

Children play football on the street on Tiwi Island on the December 23, 2007. Ezra Shaw/Getty Images

About 24,600 Indigenous children were subject to care and protection orders as of June 2022, new figures from the Australian Institute of Health and Wellbeing (AIHW) show.

That equates to 72 out of every 1,000, up from 62 per 1,000 four years earlier. Nearly a third of those affected are aged between 10 and 14.