11.7 Dependent Children

Thirteen percent of remand inmates had been recorded as having child custodial dependents at the time of imprisonment (See section 9.2 for notes on issues regarding this data).

Table 11-13 Remand inmates with child custodial dependents at imprisonment.

Child custodial dependents	Female		Male		Total
Child custodial dependents	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
0	48	65.8%	869	81.1%	917	80.1%
1	9	12.3%	46	4.3%	55	4.8%
2	6	8.2%	36	3.4%	42	3.7%
3	4	5.5%	20	1.9%	24	2.1%
4	2	2.7%	7	0.7%	9	0.8%
5	1	1.4%	8	0.7%	9	0.8%
6 +	2	2.7%	4	0.4%	6	0.5%
Not recorded	1	1.4%	82	7.6%	83	7.2%
Total	73	100.0%	1072	100.0%	1145	100.0%

Note that the data relates to the number of inmates and not to children. For example, there were 42 remand inmates who each had two child custodial dependents at the time of imprisonment.

The manual census questionnaire asked inmates who had children to identify where their children were while the inmate was in prison. The table below summaries the responses for remand inmates.

Table 11-14 Care of remand inmates’ children

Caregiver	Female		Male		Total
Caregiver	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
Partner or ex-partner	4	9.3%	383	80.8%	387	74.9%
Immediate family	18	41.9%	36	7.6%	54	10.4%
Other	11	25.6%	18	3.8%	29	5.6%
Wider family/whanau or in-laws	5	11.6%	20	4.2%	25	4.8%
Foster care (CYF etc)	5	11.6%	10	2.1%	15	2.9%
Don't know	0	0.0%	7	1.5%	7	1.4%
Total responses	43	100.0%	474	100.0%	517	100.0%

Percentages may not add to 100 because of rounding. This table shows the count of inmates whose children were under the care of the caregiver specified. It does not give a count of children. Genders shown refer to inmates’ gender.