Youth Justice Indicators Counting Rules and Limitations April 2023 [pdf, 255 KB]
...fluctuations in the measure for 10 to 13-year-olds may not be indicative of any trend or change within the system. The effect of a small total number of 1 From 1 July 2019, an application for a declaration that a child or young person is in need of care or protection has been replaced by an application for a care and protection order. 4 data points will be exacerbated in the disaggregated data and may limit the extent to which some subgroup analyses can be presented. Numbers...