Abuse ranking
| Ranking | Criteria used to define abuse |
| 1 | Abuse confirmed at case conference or civil, family or criminal court proceedings or admitted by the perpetrator, or independently witnessed |
| 2 | Abuse confirmed by stated criteria including multi-disciplinary assessment |
| 3 | Diagnosis of abuse defined by stated criteria |
| 4 | Abuse stated as occurring, but no supporting detail given as to how it was determined |
| 5 | Abuse stated simply as “suspected”, no details on whether it was confirmed or not |