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12 February 2009 | Research | Author: Australian Childhood Foundation

Cost of Child Abuse in Australia

The Cost of Child Abuse in Australia is conducted and published by the Australian Childhood Foundation, in conjunction with Access Economics and Child Abuse Prevention Research Australia at Monash University. PLease note the report is 196 pages long and may take some time to download (14MB file)

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In 2006-2007, there were 309,517 reports of child abuse and neglect received across Australia. This equates to 850 new reports of child abuse per day.

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.