5.4.8.a Out-of-home-care (OOHC)

The data on out-of-home-care identify persons who were removed at some point from their family of origin by the Department of Community Services after being identified as a child at risk. They may have been placed in foster care, kinship care or a group home and may have had a number of these episodes as children.

Overall:

An adjusted Odds Ratio test shows that, after adjusting for age, Indigenous females in the cohort are 3.7 (p<0.0001, 95% CI[1.9, 7.2]) times more likely to have been in OOHC compared to their non-Indigenous counterparts with all other factors being equal.

Complex needs specific:

An adjusted Odds Ratio test shows that, after adjusting for age, Indigenous women with complex needs in the cohort are 2.7 (p<0.001, 95% CI[1.3,5.7]) times more likely to have been in OOHC compared to their non-Indigenous counterparts with all other factors being equal.