Strong Families Safe Kids Advice and Referral Line, Child Safety Service, Out-of-Home Care, and Youth Justice Services.

We provide a range of services and support that contribute to ensuring children, young people and their families are safe, known and well.

Our services are delivered by a professional workforce committed to working together to keep children, young people and their families at the centre of everything we do.

Contacts to the Strong Families Safe Kids (SFSK) Advice and Referral Line

The table below shows data on number of contacts received by the SFSK Advice and Referral Line by financial year.

Financial YearContacts
2025-26 year-to-date (to 31 March)23,730
2024-2524,030
2023-2421,632
2022-2319,119
2021-2215,039

This indicator is defined as the number of contacts received by the SFSK Advice and Referral Line about concerns for the safety and/or wellbeing of children during the period.

Notes

  • The SFSK Advice and Referral Line was implemented on 3 December 2018.

Contacts to the Strong Families Safe Kids (SFSK) Advice and Referral Line which were resolved

The table below shows data on number of contacts resolved by the SFSK Advice and Referral Line (ARL) by outcome by financial year.

Financial YearAssistance/advice provided by ARLARL referral to family support or other servicesARL referral for child safety assessmentTotal
2025-26 year-to-date (to 31 March)23,27492864424,846
2024-2522,8091,42043224,611
2023-2418,7971,31332320,433
2022-2317,6421,14440419,190
2021-2213,5251,02529914,849

This indicator is defined as the number of contacts resolved by the SFSK Advice and Referral Line about concerns for the safety and/or wellbeing of children during the period.

Notes

  • The SFSK Advice and Referral Line was implemented on 3 December 2018.

Cases referred to the Child Safety Service for assessment

The table below shows data on total number of cases referred to the Child Safety Service for assessment by financial year.

Financial YearCases
2025-26 year-to-date (to 31 March)705
2024-25519
2023-24416
2022-23486
2021-22359

This indicator is defined as the total number of cases referred to the Child Safety service for assessment, including cases referred by the Strong Families Safe Kids (SFSK) Advice and Referral Line, during the period.

Notes

  • The SFSK Advice and Referral Line was implemented on 3 December 2018.

Average daily cases pending child safety assessment

The table below shows data on daily average cases pending child safety assessment by financial year.

Financial YearAverage daily cases
2025-26 year-to-date (to 31 March)30.9
2024-2538.2
2023-2419.8
2022-2336.5
2021-2238.3

This indicator is defined as the average number cases referred for a child safety assessment which had not been allocated a case worker within priority timeframes on each day during the period.

Cases referred for assessment are assigned a priority for commencing the Child Safety Assessment based on the overall risk level for the child or children.

Priority timeframes for allocation to a case worker are the same day for priority 1 assessments, five days for priority 2 assessments and ten days for priority 3 assessments.

Average daily children in out-of-home care

The table below shows data on daily average children in out-of-home care by financial year.

Financial YearAverage daily children
2025-26 year-to-date (to 31 March)1,003.3
2024-25951.1
2023-24953.3
2022-231,009.1
2021-221,049.4

This indicator is defined as the average number of children in out-of-home care on each day during the period. Out-of-home care is the system that provides formal care to children and young people who are assessed as unable to live safely at home.

Children restored to families

The table below shows data on number of children restored to families each financial year.

Financial yearChildren
2025-26 year-to-date (to 31 March)45
2024-2562
2023-2469
2022-2364
2021-2280

This indicator counts the number of children exiting out-of-home care to parents and remained living with their parents for a period of greater than two months following exit from out-of-home care.

Children transferred to third-party guardianship

The table below shows data on number of children transferred to third-party guardianship each financial year.

Financial yearChildren
2025-26 year-to-date (to 31 March)10
2024-2510
2023-2436
2022-2337
2021-2239

This indicator is defined as the number of children whose guardianship was transferred to a third-party.

Average daily young people in Custodial Youth Justice

The table below shows data on average daily young people in Custodial Youth Justice in Tasmania by financial year.

Financial YearYoung People
2025-26 year-to-date (to 31 March)18.5
2024-2515.8
2023-2416.3
2022-2313.6
2021-229.1

This indicator is defined as the average number of young people in detention, including sentenced and unsentenced detention, on each day during the period.

Distinct number of young people in Custodial Youth Justice

The table below shows data on distinct young people in Custodial Youth Justice in Tasmania by financial year.

Financial YearYoung People
2025-26 year-to-date (to 31 March)67
2024-2570
2023-2477
2022-2358
2021-2243

This indicator is defined as the distinct number of young people in detention, including sentenced and unsentenced detention, at any time during the period.

Notes

  • The distinct number of young people in Custodial Youth Justice counts each young person once, even if they entered and exited detention multiple times during the period.
  • Young people aged 18 and over in Custodial Youth Justice during the year are excluded from this indicator due to small numbers, to maintain consistency with nationally published figures.

Average daily young people in Community Youth Justice

The table below shows data on average daily young people in Community Youth Justice in Tasmania by financial year.

Financial YearYoung People
2025-26 year-to-date (to 31 March)245.7
2024-25216.6
2023-24175.4
2022-23151.5
2021-22145.1

This indicator is defined as the average number of young people in Community Youth Justice on each day during the period.

This includes young people participating in youth justice diversionary programs such as community conferences or performing community service undertakings, those for whom a pre-sentence report or bail-support plan is written, and young people supervised by Community Youth Justice.

Notes

  • This indicator differs from nationally published figures due to the inclusion of young people with pre-sentence reports, bail support plans, community conferences or community service undertakings.

Distinct number of young people in Community Youth Justice

The table below shows data on distinct young people in Community Youth Justice in Tasmania by financial year.

Financial YearYoung People
2025-26 year-to-date (to 31 March)460
2024-25464
2023-24419
2022-23349
2021-22347

This indicator is defined as the distinct number of young people in Community Youth Justice during the period. This includes young people participating in youth justice diversionary programs such as community conferences or performing community service undertakings, those for whom a pre-sentence report or bail-support plan is written, and young people supervised by Community Youth Justice.

Notes

  • This indicator differs from nationally published figures due to the inclusion of young people with pre-sentence reports, bail support plans, community conferences or community service undertakings.
  • The distinct number of young people in Community Youth Justice counts each young person once, even if they entered and exited multiple times during the period.

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