Child—permanent care arrangement status, type code N[N]
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Permanent care arrangement status |
METEOR identifier: | 657341 |
Registration status: | Children and Families, Standard 22/11/2016 |
Definition: | The status of a child's care arrangement with regard to permanency, as represented by a code. |
Data element concept attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Data element concept: | Child—permanent care arrangement status |
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METEOR identifier: | 657339 |
Registration status: | Children and Families, Standard 22/11/2016 |
Definition: | The status of a child's care arrangement with regard to permanency. |
Object class: | Child |
Property: | Permanent care arrangement status |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Value domain attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Value domain: | Type of permanent care arrangement code N[N] |
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METEOR identifier: | 657330 |
Registration status: | Children and Families, Standard 22/11/2016 |
Definition: | A code set representing permanency of care arrangements. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | Permanency planning refers to time-limited, goal directed efforts to help maintain a child in a permanent and stable living arrangement with his or her own family, or, if that is not possible, to secure for the child a permanent living arrangement under a long-term child protection order or an adoption order. Permanent care arrangements mayinclude a child being returned to their parent(s); other relatives/kin, or a former guardian (reunification); adoption; or for whom alternative permanent care arrangements were provided (i.e. third-party parental responsibility orders, long-term/to age 18 orders). There are different goals and priorities for children’s permanent care arrangements depending on their characteristics and circumstances. While it is possible for a child to have a number of permanency options explored within the 2015–16 reporting period, this item intends to capture the most recent permanent care arrangement attained in the reporting period (i.e. on the night of 30 June 2016, or as at discharge for children who were discharged from care during 2015–16, and had not returned in less than 60 days). Codes 1–6 represent a change to a new permanent care arrangement; Codes 7–8 represent the continuation of an existing permanent care arrangement, acknowledging that there may not have been a change to the status of a permanent care arrangement within the 2015–16 reporting period. Code 9 captures those children who did not have a permanent care arrangement within the 2015–16 reporting period. |
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Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Origin: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) 2016. Child protection national minimum data set, data collection manual 2015–16. Canberra: AIHW. |
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Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | National out-of-home care standards (NOOHCS) file cluster Children and Families, Superseded 20/04/2018 Implementation start date: 01/07/2014 Implementation end date: 30/06/2016 National out-of-home care standards (NOOHCS) file cluster Children and Families, Superseded 20/01/2021 Implementation start date: 01/07/2015 Implementation end date: 30/06/2017 |