Annual report [1997-98] - Family Court of Australia

The Family Court of Australia – annual report 1997-98
Table 4.6A: Court counselling statistics July 1997 to June 1998
NORTHERN SOUTHERN FCA FCWA AUST
AS BR CH CS DN DU GC LS NC PA RK SY TV WL AD AL CA DG HB LN ML
New Interventions Opened
Number of New Interventions Opened in each category
Voluntary privileged counselling - in person* 56 443 205 409 215 318 531 492 805 456 134 487 263 209 845 448 863 558 590 525
Court-ordered privileged counselling before FDH 19 1035 24 70 144 17 120 90 338 895 75 268 145 51 546 107 215 339 193 213
Court-ordered privileged counselling after FDH 13 736 85 45 126 111 48 141 469 940 34 932 65 162 1053 107 22 667 115 198
Access enforcement counselling 0 140 0 4 3 3 2 4 3 27 0 18 4 4 9 1 4 86 6 1
Joint conferencing 0 4 0 0 2 3 0 5 23 48 0 15 18 1 4 0 2 21 32 16
Reports 4 93 20 22 20 41 15 23 73 217 13 182 22 48 108 39 84 107 32 37
Reports allocated to welfare officers 0 0 0 3 3 12 1 8 18 43 0 31 3 0 5 0 2 11 1 2
Total new interventions opened 92 2451 334 553 513 505 717 763 1729 2626 256 1933 520 475 2570 702 1192 1789 969 992
Telephone Counselling* 22 1388 97 604 109 452 72 96 902 187 166 648 321 75 4365 961 1005 717 349 190
1335 10187 743 10930
258 5162 839 6001
1432 7501 664 8165
152 471 72 543
45 239 1 240
368 1568 216 1784
19 162 0 162
3609 25290 2535 27825
1360 14086 3986 18072
Percentage of new interventions opened in each category
Voluntary privileged counselling - in person* 60.9 18.1 61.4 74.0 41.9 63.0 74.1 64.5 46.6 17.4 52.3 25.2 50.6 44.0 32.9 63.8 72.4 31.2 60.9 52.9
Court-ordered privileged counselling before FDH 20.7 42.2 7.2 12.7 28.1 3.4 16.7 11.8 19.5 34.1 29.3 13.9 27.9 10.7 21.2 15.2 18.0 18.9 19.9 21.5
Court-ordered privileged counselling after FDH 14.1 30.0 25.4 8.1 24.6 22.0 6.7 18.5 27.1 35.8 13.3 48.2 12.5 34.1 41.0 15.2 1.8 37.3 11.9 20.0
Access enforcement counselling 0.0 5.7 0.0 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.3 0.5 0.2 1.0 0.0 0.9 0.8 0.8 0.4 0.1 0.3 4.8 0.6 0.1
Joint conferencing 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.4 0.6 0.0 0.7 1.3 1.8 0.0 0.8 3.5 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.2 1.2 3.3 1.6
Reports 4.3 3.8 6.0 4.0 3.9 8.1 2.1 3.0 4.2 8.3 5.1 9.4 4.2 10.1 4.2 5.6 7.0 6.0 3.3 3.7
Reports allocated to welfare officers 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.5 0.6 2.4 0.1 1.0 1.0 1.6 0.0 1.6 0.6 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.2 0.6 0.1 0.2
Total new interventions opened 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Number of Interviews Held
Voluntary privileged counselling - in person* 103 757 462 841 353 491 1131 928 1639 796 251 1052 615 431 1450 650 1427 834 992 782
Court-ordered privileged counselling before FDH 42 1649 100 221 246 36 324 202 608 1355 126 567 452 146 884 204 331 422 276 370
Court-ordered privileged counselling after FDH 30 2657 427 266 271 254 298 446 921 1994 135 2519 640 541 1710 277 65 951 182 432
Access enforcement counselling 0 252 1 12 10 30 2 9 23 72 0 51 8 18 16 25 32 130 10 1
Joint conferencing 0 244 12 2 5 8 4 14 32 68 2 50 36 7 6 0 8 30 41 26
Reports 19 678 144 123 152 220 155 291 699 1901 28 1699 309 202 736 357 450 1078 201 224
Telephone Counselling* 64 3081 621 1517 284 671 1478 1472 1894 651 327 1431 971 203 6928 1564 1983 2192 1496 554
37.0 40.3 29.3 39.3
7.1 20.4 33.1 21.6
39.7 29.7 26.2 29.3
4.2 1.9 2.8 2.0
1.2 0.9 0.0 0.9
10.2 6.2 8.5 6.4
0.5 0.6 0.0 0.6
100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
2290 18275 1208 19483
390 8951 1157 10108
3414 18430 1102 19532
277 979 109 1088
89 684 3 687
2693 12359 257 12616
4734 34116 5762 39878
Performance Indicators
Voluntary privileged counselling (in person*)
At least 50% of cases are voluntary yes no yes yes no yes yes yes no no yes no yes no no yes yes no yes yes
Percentage 61 18 61 74 42 63 74 64 47 17 52 25 51 44 33 64 72 31 61 53
Direct client and client related work
Counsellors
60% of Counsellor time in direct client contact: no no no no no no yes no no no no no no no no no no no no no
Percentage of direct client contact 22 53 47 45 42 45 60 59 53 43 39 46 52 33 50 50 51 50 53 52
Percentage of client related work 34 28 25 20 35 39 20 27 28 37 40 36 26 31 35 22 22 31 24 32
Direct client and client related work
Casework Supervisors
33-50% of CWS time in direct client contact - no yes no - yes yes yes - no - no - yes no yes - yes yes yes
Percentage of direct client contact - 18 41 19 - 48 48 53 - 30 - 24 - 36 29 37 - 50 36 45
Percentage of client related work - 50 26 39 - 39 27 32 - 34 - 23 - 32 54 24 - 0 26 22
no no no no
37 40 29 39
no no no no
52 49 54 52
30 31 27 29
no no no no
17 25 19 22
48 26 37 31
* A new system for collecting Court Counselling statistics began 1 January 1996. Previously not all telephone counselling statistics were collected and those that were collected counted as
Voluntary Privileged Counselling only if they were pre-arranged. The current system counts telephone intake -arranged assessments and crisis and pre telephone counselling and does not
distinguish between these. Some of the interventions and interviews reported as Telephone Counselling would s V oluntary have been Privileged counted Counselling a before January 1996.
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