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Number children and young people re-reported at Risk of Significant Harm (ROSH) within 12 months of closure of plan

Definition

The number of children and young people who were re-reported at Risk of Significant Harm (ROSH) within 12 months of having a case plan closed with the closure reason of "case plan achieved" during the reporting period.

Indicator Summary

Numerator
Distribution/Table Path/Column
Child Protection Reporting - Base Data Asset CHILDSTORY_ID
  REREPORT_FLAG
  CASE_CLOSURE_REASON
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Denominator

Not applicable.

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Computation

A count of distinct Child Identifiers with a Re-report Flag equal to Yes at any time in the following 12 months of having a Case Closure Reason of 'case plan goal achieved' or 'Assessment of risk indicates no further intervention required' or 'Family Action Plan goal achieved' or 'Assessments indicate Child/Young Person is not in need of Care and Protection.'

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Disaggregation

This indicator may be disaggregated by:

Geographic Breakdown

Distribution/Table Path/Column Dashboard Filter Label
Child Protection Reporting - Base Data Asset DITRICT_COMMON District
  DITRICT_COMMON Cluster
  BUSINESS_UNIT_COMMON Business unit

* District has been recoded into cluster using the District Common variable.

Demographic breakdown

Distribution/Table Path/Column Dashboard Filter Label
Child Protection Reporting - Base Data Asset ABORIGINAL_STATUS_GROUPED Aboriginal status
    Age*
  AGE_AT_CONTACT_GROUPED Age grouped
  DISABILITY_FLAG Disability
  GENDER Gender

* Age is calculated as the difference between the Date …

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Reporting Information

The Operational Business Review reports monthly.  

The Annual Statistical Report reports annually.

Published by the NSW Department of Family and Community Services.

Framework Dimensions

Benchmark

The benchmark (as the rate of children re-reported at ROSH) is 33.2%.

Calculation rules

Computation Rule
Computation

A count of distinct Child Identifiers with a Re-report Flag equal to Yes at any time in the following 12 months of having a Case Closure Reason of 'case plan goal achieved' or 'Assessment of risk indicates no further intervention required' or 'Family Action Plan goal achieved' or 'Assessments indicate Child/Young Person is not in need of Care and Protection.'

Denominators

Not applicable.

Disaggregation

This indicator may be disaggregated by:

Geographic Breakdown

Distribution/Table Path/Column Dashboard Filter Label
Child Protection Reporting - Base Data Asset DITRICT_COMMON District
  DITRICT_COMMON Cluster
  BUSINESS_UNIT_COMMON Business unit

* District has been recoded into cluster using the District Common variable.

Demographic breakdown

Distribution/Table Path/Column Dashboard Filter Label
Child Protection Reporting - Base Data Asset ABORIGINAL_STATUS_GROUPED Aboriginal status
    Age*
  AGE_AT_CONTACT_GROUPED Age grouped
  DISABILITY_FLAG Disability
  GENDER Gender

* Age is calculated as the difference between the Date of the Safety Assessment or the Date of Alternative Assessment and the Child or Young Person's Date of Birth. Age is then grouped into the categories of '4 years and under', '5 - 12 years', '13 - 17 years' and '18+ years' and into 'Age unknown or missing'.

The Operational Business Review (OBR) disaggregates by District, Cluster, Business unit, Age at case closure and Aboriginal status.

The Annual Statistical Report does not disaggregate.

Comments

This measure is a Premier's Priority. The baseline is 40.4% at 30 June 2015.

Caseworkers in DCJ Child Protection Helpline apply the Structured Decision Making (SDM) Screening and Response Priority (SCRPT) tools to reports to determine the level of response category.

  • ‘Other’ in the ‘Other/NA’ reporting category for response priorities include reports marked as ‘no response required’ and those with the required information left blank. ‘NA’ (Not Applicable) relates to ROSH reports where additional children were recorded at the time of the field assessment. The data reported for “Other/NA’ in 2019-20 is not directly comparable to that reported in the previous years, because: the large number of ROSH reports with blank final response priority reported for 2019-20 were attributed to the Streamlined Response Pilot in Northern NSW District, where the Response Priority Tool was no longer being used to determine the response priority. ‘Not Applicable (N/A)’ mainly relates to ROSH reports where additional children were recorded at the time of the field assessment. The data reported for ‘Other/NA’ in 2019-20 is not directly comparable to that reported in the previous years as a large number of ROSH reports with blank final response priority reported for 2019-20 are attributable to the Streamlined Response Pilot project underway in the Northern NSW District where the Response Priority Tool is no longer being used to determine the response priority.
  • ‘Prenatal reports’ are reported under ‘Carer: other issues’ prior to 2012-13. 'Other issues' includes ROSH reports where additional children were recorded at the time of field assessment; hence, Helpline assessed issue is not applicable.

The District reflects where the child/young person's case plan is held at their first ROSH report in the reporting period.

  • The Hunter New England District was split into Hunter District and New England District from 2018-19. This means that no data will be displayed for Hunter District or for New England District before 2018-19 and no data will be displayed for Hunter New England District after 2017-18.
  • The ‘Other’ reported in the DCJ District breakdown includes data from the former Hunter New England District which cannot be split into the new districts and data where District could not be identified.
  • Statewide Services also includes 'not entered', in most cases where reports don't require a field response after an assessment/screening is undertaken at the DCJ Child Protection Helpline.

Since the implementation of ChildStory there has been a change in the way reporter type is reported. From 2017-18 onwards, the category of 'Non-mandatory reporters' has replaced the categories of ‘Community/Social organisations’, ‘Family members’, 'Subject child/young person' and ‘Other/Not stated’ which are no longer used.

Data ageing:

  • Data ageing is two months, unless otherwise indicated. Therefore, the data for this indicator will be available two months after the end of the month in which the data first becomes available.

Data limitations:

  • Nil.

Data source:

Origin

Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1998

References

In 2009 the threshold for legislative statutory authority intervention was amended from ‘risk of harm’ to ‘risk of significant harm’.

The NSW Interagency Guidelines outlines what is meant by ‘significant’ in ‘risk of significant harm’.

  • “This means the concern is sufficiently serious to warrant a response by a statutory authority (such as NSW Police Force or Community Services) irrespective of a family’s consent.
    What is significant is not minor or trivial and may reasonably be expected to produce a substantial and demonstrably adverse impact on the child or young person’s safety, welfare or wellbeing, or in the case of an unborn child, after the child’s birth. 
    The significance can result from a single act or omission or an accumulation of these.”

https://reporter.childstory.nsw.gov.au/s/article/Significant-harm-policy-definition

Custom Fields

DCJ - Domain
 Child Protection

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