Over the past seven years, the number of reported cases of child abuse and neglect has almost tripled in Australia. In 1999-2000, there were 107,134 reports.
The number of children living away from their family for their own protection has almost tripled from 13 979 in 1996 to 31 166 in 2008.
Last year there were more than 872 new reports of child abuse per day. That equates to one child reported abused or neglected every two minutes.
