Regulatory Impact Statement Vulnerable childrens bill child harm prevention orders [pdf, 234 KB]
...for the year from 1 July 2011 to 30 June 2012. These statistics yielded an estimate of 80 individuals who might be considered suitable for an order. These volumes are necessarily very approximate, since there is no reliable information on the precise number of individuals who present a risk that would be mitigated by the imposition of the proposed order. 2 Risk prediction is inherently uncertain, so that orders will inevitably be imposed on people who...