Examining the intersection of child protection and public housing: development, health and justice outcomes using linked administrative data.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We described development, health and justice system outcomes for children in contact with child protection and public housing.

Design

Descriptive analysis of outcomes for children known to child protection who also had contact with public housing drawn from the South Australian (SA) Better Evidence Better Outcomes Linked Data (BEBOLD) platform.

Setting

The BEBOLD platform holds linked administrative records collected by government agencies for whole-population successive birth cohorts in SA beginning in 1999.

Participants

This study included data from birth registrations, perinatal, child protection, public housing, hospital, emergency department, early education and youth justice for all SA children born 1999-2013 and followed until 2016. The base po

SUBMITTER: Malvaso C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9189815 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature