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Australia · Child Protection · 2024–25
Around 137,000 Australian children came into contact with the child protection system in 2024–25.
AIHW initial release. Queensland’s 2024–25 data is not yet included because of a client-management system transition. Read the source and scope.
Victoria’s child-safety systems recorded 705 early-childhood notifications, 593 children abused or neglected in care, and thousands of police victim reports. The numbers expose fragmented oversight—not the safety architecture families were promised.
A source-audited Case File on Victorian childcare oversight: 705 early-childhood notifications, almost 250 child-on-child abuse allegations, fragmented worker histories and $484.1 million in incorrect subsidy payments.
Australia recorded 82,764 reports of online child sexual exploitation in 2024–25—about 227 every day. The headline is alarming. The missing public data behind it is an accountability failure.
Australia has strategies, standards and 409 Royal Commission recommendations — but no transparent national path from child sexual-abuse reports to convictions. The Omen Report examines what the official numbers still do not show.
Case File standard · Operation Tenterfield
The ACCCE Child Protection Triage Unit received 82,764 reports of online child sexual exploitation in 2024–25. A Case File does not dump that number and move on. It traces what happened next.
Raw statistics in list form. Every number is sourced. Every limitation is stated. No brochure language.
Deep investigations with a clear evidence trail: what happened, what authorities did, what remains unanswered and who must respond.
CURATED · AUSTRALIA
Direct links to primary Australian child-safety authorities. News and allegations are reviewed by an editor before they appear on The Omen Report.
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AFP / ACCCE news
eSafety media releases
National Office for Child Safety
Caveat: not all notifications are investigated, and not all investigations are substantiated.