The Queensland Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services describes an absconding child as one who has left the placement without permission. However their location is known or they display patterns of behaviour of leaving the placement without permission, but always return within a certain timeframe.
Prepared by: Lee Butterworth
Created: 6 August 2012, Last modified: 18 March 2013
Last updated: 7 August 2023
Cite this: https://www.findandconnect.gov.au/ref/qld/biogs/QE00449b.htm
First published by the Find & Connect Web Resource Project for the Commonwealth of Australia, 2011
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