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Child Maltreatment Investigations in Quebec, 1998, 2008* and 2014**

  1998 2008 2014
Child population 1,658,480 1,549,200 1,521,298
Number of child maltreatment investigations 25,615 28,608 31,529
Incidence of child maltreatment investigations per 1000 children 15.44 18.47 20.72

Type of Child Maltreatment Investigation in Quebec in 2014**

  # Rate per 1,000 children %
No Risk or Substantiated Maltreatment  8,565 5.63 27%
Confirmed Risk of Future Maltreatment 4,101 2.70 13%
Substantiated Maltreatment 18,860 12.40 60%

Categories of Substantiated Child Maltreatment Investigations in Quebec in 2014**

Category of Maltreatment # Rate per 1,000 children %
Physical Abuse 4,457 2.93 19%
Sexual Abuse 732 0.48 3%
Neglect 6,127 4.03 27%
Emotional Maltreatment 2,486 1.63 11%
Behavioural Problems 4,364 2.87 19%
Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence 4,790 3.15 21%

Placement in Child Maltreatment Investigations in Quebec, 1998, 2008* and 2014**

  1998 # 1998 Rate 2008 # 2008 Rate 2014 # 2014 Rate
No Placement 16,776 10.12 24,238 15.65 27,221 17.89
Informal Kinship Care - - 780 0.50 1,664 1.09
Formal Placement 7,790 4.7 3,178 2.06 2,558 1.68
Type of Placement Unknown 834 0.50 340 0.22 -- 0.04

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Children and youth in out-of-home care in 2019^

Children in care   Child (0-17) population Rate per 1000****
9,174***   1,584,856 5.79

* Hélie, S., Turcotte, D., Trocmé, N., & Tourigny, M. (2012). Étude d’incidence québécoise sur les situations évaluées en protection de la jeunesse en 2008: Rapport final (p. 252). Montreal, QC: Centre jeunesse de Montréal-Institut universitaire. Retrieved from https://cwrp.ca/fr/publications/etude-dincidence-quebecoise-sur-les-situations-evaluees-en-protection-de-la-jeunesse

** Hélie, S., Collin-Vézina, D.,Turcotte, D., Trocmé, N., & Girouard, N. (2017). Étude d’incidence québécoise sur les situations évaluées en protection de la jeunesse en 2014: Rapport final. Montreal, QC: Centre jeunesse de Montréal-Institut universitaire. Retrieved from https://cwrp.ca/publications/quebec-incidence-study-2014-eiq-2014-final-report

^Gouvernement du Québec. (2019). 40 ans d’expertise pour bâtir l’avenir - Bilan des Directeurs de la Protection de la Jeunesse / Directeurs Provinciaux 2019. http://www.cissslanaudiere.gouv.qc.ca/fileadmin/internet/cisss_
lanaudiere/Documentation/Rapports/DPJ/2019/Bilan2019_VersionW EB.pdf.

***This number does not include the administrative regions 17 and 18 in Quebec. It is therefore an underestimate.

****The rate per 1000 is calculated using the population of children covered under the age of protection in Quebec (under 18 years old).

§ Child welfare services fall under the jurisdiction of provincial and territorial authorities, making it difficult to compile statistics at the national level. The most notable variations between provinces include mandate variation by jurisdiction with respect to the age to which children are eligible for services, differences in the length of time a child can receive out-of-home care and the definition of out-of-home care.