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emergency foster care placement prior to the identification and assessment of a suitable long term kinship placement).

Children and young people in out of home care by length of time in continuous care at 30 June 2016.

Time in continuous placement	2016
<1 month	15
1 month to <6 months	57
6 months to <1 year	63
1 year to <2 years	116
2 years to <5 years	202
5 years or more	295
Total	748

(4) The table below details all children admitted to orders by their age at entry. As above in part (3), an ‘average’ age would not be meaningful.

Children and young people admitted to care and protection orders.

(5) Children and young people in out of home care by sex by placement type at 30 June 2016.

(6) Children and young people in out of home care by Aboriginal status by placement type at 30 June 2016.

	Kinship	Foster	Residential	Other*	TOTAL
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander	117	58	10	12	197
Non-Aboriginal	281	206	32	32	551
TOTAL	398	264	42	44	748

(7) Children and young people on care and protection orders by Aboriginal status as a proportion of the ACT population of children and young people.