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Activity and participation need for assistance cluster

492069 | Data Set Specification
These data elements are used in conjunction with each other to determine the level of assistance a person with a disability requires and the type of activity for which this assistance is needed. The activity and participation need for assistance cluster combines the two data elements: Person—activity and participation in life area, code N and Person—activity need for assistance, code N and describes the following information: Unable to do or always needs help/ supervision in this li...
Standard: Community Services (retired)
Superseded: Disability

Adoptions DSS 2013-14

564723 | Data Set Specification
The Adoptions data set specification (DSS) describes data collected from state/territory departments responsible for adoptions for the Adoptions Australia Collection. Adoption is the legal process by which a person legally becomes a child of the adoptive parent(s) and legally ceases to be a child of his/her existing parent(s). Adopted children include people aged 18 years and under. The Adoptions Australia Collection contains data relating to two populations of children, those subject to: Fina...
Recorded: Community Services (retired)

Agency sector cluster

497979 | Data Set Specification | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
This cluster applies to agencies providing data to the Disability Services National Minimum Data Set.
Standard: Community Services (retired)
Superseded: Disability

Care and protection order (CPO) DSS Pilot (2010)

433756 | Data Set Specification | Performance and Data Working Group
The Care and protection order Data Set Specification (DSS) contains information about all care and protection orders ever issued to the clients in the Child protection and support services (CPSS) client DSS. This includes care and protection orders that were issued and/or applicable during the reference period and also those from previous years, as well as orders that were discharged in previous years. Children should be counted in the state or territory where the order is operative, regardless ...
Recorded: Community Services (retired)

Care and protection order (CPO) file cluster

492993 | Data Set Specification | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The Care and protection order file cluster contains information about care and protection orders issued to the clients in the Child protection (CP) client data set specification. This includes care and protection orders that were issued and/or applicable, including those that ended, during the reference period. Children should be counted in the state or territory where the order is operative, regardless of where the child is residing. The following care and protection orders/arrangements are inc...
Recorded: Community Services (retired)
Superseded: Children and Families

Carer demographics file cluster

493178 | Data Set Specification | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The Carer demographics file cluster contains demographic information about all carers who were authorised to provide funded home-based out-of-home-care placements at any point during the reference period. If individual carers are not recorded separately on jurisdictions' systems, a carer identifier should be assigned for the purpose of this collection and the primary carer demographic details recorded.
Recorded: Community Services (retired)
Standard: Children and Families

Carer household authorisation file cluster

493492 | Data Set Specification | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The Carer household authorisation file cluster contains information about all carer households who were authorised to provide funded home–based out-of-home-care placements at any point during the reference period. This includes carer households authorised to provide: Foster care (including provisionally approved carers) Relative/kinship care (including provisionally approved carers) Respite Long-term guardianship.
Recorded: Community Services (retired)
Superseded: Children and Families

Case, cultural support and leaving care plan cluster

551097 | Data Set Specification | Children and Families Data Network (CAFDaN)
The data elements in the Case, cultural support and leaving care plan cluster are used in conjunction with each other to describe: Whether a child was required by jurisdictional policy/legislation to have a current, documented and approved case plan, cultural support plan and/or leaving care plan on the night of 30 June. Whether a child had a current, documented and approved case plan, cultural support plan and/or leaving care plan in place on the night of 30 June.
Recorded: Community Services (retired)

Child protection (CP) client file cluster

492589 | Data Set Specification | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The Child protection (CP) client file cluster is used to collect demographic information on children and young people involved in any component of the child protection system (i.e. notifications, investigations, substantiations, orders and/or out-of-home care placements) during the reference period.
Recorded: Community Services (retired)
Superseded: Children and Families

Child protection and support services (CPSS) - out-of-home care NMDS (July 2007)

355779 | Data Set Specification | National Child Protection and Support Services (NCPASS) data group
The Child Protection and Support Services National Minimum Data Set (CPSS NMDS) is designed to capture information on all children and young people involved in the child protection systems throughout Australia. There are three collections within the CPSS NMDS, all of which are unit record data. The first is the child protection specific data, which includes contacts, notifications, substantiations and services provided. The second is data on children who are on care and protection orders. The...
Superseded: Community Services (retired)

Child protection and support services (CPSS) - care and protection order episode NMDS (July 2007)

352101 | Data Set Specification | National Child Protection and Support Services (NCPASS) data group
The Child Protection and Support Services National Minimum Data Set (CPSS NDMS) is designed to capture information on all children and young people involved in the child protection systems throughout Australia. There are three collections within the CPSS NMDS, all of which are unit record data. The first is the child protection specific data, which includes contacts, notifications, substantiations and services provided. The second is data on children who are on care and protection orders. The...
Superseded: Community Services (retired)

Child protection and support services (CPSS) - notifications, investigations, and substantiations NMDS (July 2007)

314520 | Data Set Specification | National Child Protection and Support Services (NCPASS) data group
The Child Protection and Support Services National Minimum Data Set (CPSS NDMS), is designed to capture information on all children and young people involved in the child protection systems throughout Australia. There are three collections within the CPSS NMDS, all of which are unit record data. The first is the child protection specific data, which includes contacts, notifications, substantiations and services provided. The second is data on children who are on care and protection orders. The t...
Superseded: Community Services (retired)

Child protection and support services (CPSS) care arrangements cluster

364289 | Data Set Specification
This cluster refers to the care arrangements of the child, who is the subject of substantiation, at the time the abuse/neglect/harm occurred.
Recorded: Community Services (retired)

Child protection and support services (CPSS) client DSS Pilot (2010)

433689 | Data Set Specification | Performance and Data Working Group
The Child protection and support services (CPSS) client DSS is used to collect demographic information on children and young people involved in any component of the child protection system (i.e. notifications, investigations, substantiations, orders and/or out-of-home care placements) during the reference period. Children and young people are defined as those aged less than 18 years. This includes unborn children in jurisdictions where they are covered under the child protection legislation.
Recorded: Community Services (retired)

Child protection and support services (CPSS) DSS Pilot (2010)

386183 | Data Set Specification | Performance and Data Working Group (PDWG) (child protection)
The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) endorsed the National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children 2009–2020 (COAG 2009) on 30 April 2009, demonstrating all governments’ commitment to achieving a substantial and sustained reduction in child abuse and neglect in Australia. The development of a unit record data collection is seen as a major project under the National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children. Although each jurisdiction has its own legislation, policies and pract...
Recorded: Community Services (retired)

Child protection client alias cluster

433768 | Data Set Specification | Performance and Data Working Group
The Client alias cluster is used to determine whether a current child protection and support services client has ever been recorded as a client of the service under an alias or assigned a different client identifier, prior to this instance of being a client. Information regarding all previous names and/or client identifiers is captured here and can be used to assist with data integration across years and jurisdictions.
Recorded: Community Services (retired)

Child protection NMDS 2012-13

492561 | Data Set Specification | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) endorsed the National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children 2009–2020 (COAG 2009) on 30 April 2009, demonstrating all governments’ commitment to achieving a substantial and sustained reduction in child abuse and neglect in Australia. The development of a unit record data collection is seen as a major project under the National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children. Although each jurisdiction has its own legislation, policies and practi...
Recorded: Community Services (retired)
Superseded: Children and Families

Children's Services NMDS

308217 | Data Set Specification | Children's Services Data Working Group
The CS NMDS collects information about child care and preschool activities that are provided at services which are licensed and/or funded by Australian, state or territory governments to provide child care or preschool. Children’s services aim to: meet the care, educational and developmental needs of children in a safe and nurturing environment; provide support for families in caring for their children; and provide these services in an equitable and efficient manner. In this collection, chil...
Superseded: Community Services (retired)

Commonwealth State/Territory Disability Agreement NMDS - 1 July 2006

317350 | Data Set Specification | CSTDA NMDS Network
The Commonwealth State/Territory Disability Agreement National Minimum Data Set (CSTDA NMDS) and its national collection is: a set of nationally significant data items or pieces of information that are collected in all Australian jurisdictions; and an agreed method of collection and transmission. The purpose of the CSTDA NMDS collection is to facilitate the annual collation of nationally comparable data about CSTDA-funded services, and to obtain reliable, consistent data with minimal load on ...
Superseded: Community Services (retired)

Commonwealth State/Territory Disability Agreement NMDS (July 2008)

372123 | Data Set Specification | CSTDA NMDS Network
The Commonwealth State/Territory Disability Agreement National Minimum Data Set (CSTDA NMDS) and its national collection is: a set of nationally significant data items or pieces of information that are collected in all Australian jurisdictions; and an agreed method of collection and transmission. The purpose of the CSTDA NMDS collection is to facilitate the annual collation of nationally comparable data about CSTDA-funded services, and to obtain reliable, consistent data with minimal load on ...
Superseded: Community Services (retired)

Disability data dictionary

484560 | Data Set Specification | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
The disability data dictionary provides a reference set of data standards for collection of data from specialist disability service providers and other service providers delivering basic community care. The disability data dictionary builds on the Disability Services National Minimum Data Set (NMDS), and to a lesser extent the Home and Community Care (HACC) Minimum Data Set, and describes in an internationally standardised form: metadata for most items in the existing Disability Services NMDS a...
Standard: Community Services (retired)
Superseded: Disability

Disability Services NMDS 2009-10

386485 | Data Set Specification | DS NMDS Network
The Disability Services Minimum Data Set (DS NMDS) and its national collection is: a set of nationally significant data items or pieces of information that are collected in all Australian jurisdictions; and an agreed method of collection and transmission. The purpose of the DS NMDS collection is to facilitate the annual collation of nationally comparable data about disability services, and to obtain reliable, consistent data with minimal load on the disability services field. Under the Nationa...
Superseded: Community Services (retired)

Disability Services NMDS 2010-11

428708 | Data Set Specification | DS NMDS Network
The Disability Services Minimum Data Set (DS NMDS) and its national collection is: a set of nationally significant data items or pieces of information that are collected in all Australian jurisdictions; and an agreed method of collection and transmission. The purpose of the DS NMDS collection is to facilitate the annual collation of nationally comparable data about disability services, and to obtain reliable, consistent data with minimal load on the disability services field. Under the Nationa...
Superseded: Community Services (retired)

Disability Services NMDS 2011-12

461636 | Data Set Specification | DS NMDS Network
The Disability Services Minimum Data Set (DS NMDS) and its national collection is: a set of nationally significant data items or pieces of information that are collected in all Australian jurisdictions; and an agreed method of collection and transmission. The purpose of the DS NMDS collection is to facilitate the annual collation of nationally comparable data about disability services, and to obtain reliable, consistent data with minimal load on the disability services field. Under the Nationa...
Superseded: Community Services (retired)

Disability services provider details cluster

484554 | Data Set Specification
This cluster of data elements provides information on the administrative arrangements and scope of operations of a specialist disability service reporting to the Disability Services NMDS.
Standard: Community Services (retired)
Superseded: Disability

Disability services/supports received cluster

484556 | Data Set Specification
This cluster of data elements provides information on the nature, amount and intensity of services received by a client of a specialist disability service reporting to the Disability Services NMDS.
Standard: Community Services (retired)
Superseded: Disability

Fee schedule cluster

354629 | Data Set Specification
These data items are used in conjunction with each other to describe the fee schedules for each type of service, based on time period, activity or group. They are collected together and reported as a dollar amount against each fee schedule type within a service type.
Superseded: Community Services (retired)

Home and Community Care (HACC) assistance received (quantity) cluster

386622 | Data Set Specification
This cluster is used to determine the total amount of assistance received by a client during the reporting period. The types of assistance measured by this cluster are Meals (at home or elsewhere), Formal linen services, and Transport. The date, location and source of funding for that assistance provision in the HACC service event are required to be detailed.
Recorded: Community Services (retired)

Home and Community Care (HACC) assistance received (time) cluster

386624 | Data Set Specification
This cluster is used to determine the total amount of assistance received by a client during the reporting period, measured by time. The date, location and source of funding for that assistance in the HACC service event are also required to be detailed.
Recorded: Community Services (retired)

Home and Community Care (HACC) functional status cluster

385538 | Data Set Specification
The extent to which the person is able to perform selected activities of daily living; and whether they have memory or behavioural problems. It is intended to identify areas in which a person requires assistance with daily living and quantify the extent to which the person needs other people to enable them to carry out normal activities of daily living in their home and in their community.
Recorded: Community Services (retired)

Home and Community Care (HACC) goods and equipment received cluster

386626 | Data Set Specification
This cluster is used to determine the total amount of assistance with types of goods and equipment received by a client during the reporting period. This cluster includes the amount of a category of goods or equipment provided (by purchase or loan) to the client by an agency, measured in quantity, during a HACC service event. The date, location and source of funding for that goods and equipment provision in the HACC service event are also required to be detailed.
Recorded: Community Services (retired)

Home and Community Care (HACC) total assistance received (cost) cluster

386620 | Data Set Specification
This cluster is used to determine the total cost of assistance received by a client during the reporting period. The only type of assistance measured in cost within Version 2.0 of the HACC MDS is Home Modification. This cluster includes the cost of a type of assistance received by the client from the agency, measured during a HACC service event. The date, location and source of funding for that assistance/goods and equipment provision in the HACC service event are required to be detailed...
Recorded: Community Services (retired)

Home and Community Care MDS 2009

379878 | Data Set Specification
Scope: The HACC Program provides a comprehensive range of basic maintenance and support services for frail older people, people with a disability and their carers, so that they can remain in the community. The HACC MDS is a client-centred data collection designed to support program management and planning by supplying basic information about HACC clients and the services they receive. It is one of several accountability measures designed to assist with planning, monitoring and evaluation of HACC...
Recorded: Community Services (retired)

Juvenile Justice Client file cluster

386845 | Data Set Specification | Australian Youth Justice Administrators (AYJA)
The Client file contains demographic information on young people under juvenile justice supervision.
Standard: Community Services (retired)
Superseded: Youth Justice

Juvenile Justice NMDS 2007

314122 | Data Set Specification | Juvenile Justice Data Sub-Committee
There are three collections within the JJ NMDS. The first collection is the client collection which lists all clients active in the juvenile justice system for the collection year and contains all relevant client characteristic variables. All episodes in the collection year for these clients are reported in the second episode-related collection. It contains unit-record data summarising each episode and clients may have multiple episodes within the collection year. Lastly, the centre collection p...
Superseded: Community Services (retired)

Living arrangements for children under care (LA) DSS Pilot (2010)

433761 | Data Set Specification | Performance and Data Working Group
The Living arrangements for children under care (LA) Data Set Specification (DSS) contains information about the history of living arrangements for children under the care of the relevant Department (i.e. children on orders who are not in funded out-of-home care and children in funded out-of-home care placements regardless of whether they are on an order). This includes living arrangements recorded during the reference period and also those from previous years. Children on orders are those child...
Recorded: Community Services (retired)

Living arrangements for children under care (LA) file cluster

492989 | Data Set Specification | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The Living arrangements for children under care (LA) file cluster contains information about the living arrangements recorded during the reference period for children under the care of a Department responsible for child protection (i.e. children on orders who were not in funded out-of-home care and children in funded out-of-home care placements regardless of whether they were on an order).
Recorded: Community Services (retired)
Standard: Children and Families

Notifications, investigations, and substantiations (NIS) DSS Pilot 2010

433700 | Data Set Specification | Performance and Data Working Group
A notification consists of reports made to the Department responsible for child protection by persons or other bodies making allegations of child abuse or neglect, child maltreatment or harm to a child. Notification should not include reports regarding wider concerns about children or families which are classified as child concern reports. Notifications are relevant to persons who are aged less than 18 years, and to unborn children in jurisdictions where they are covered under the child protecti...
Recorded: Community Services (retired)

Notifications, investigations, and substantiations (NIS) file cluster

492995 | Data Set Specification | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The Notifications, investigations and substantiations (NIS) file cluster contains information about notifications, investigations and substantiations recorded for the clients in the Client file during the reference period. This includes notifications received during the reference period and investigations that were open during the reference period, regardless of the date of notification.
Recorded: Community Services (retired)
Superseded: Children and Families

Safety in out-of-home care (Safety) DSS Pilot 2010

433772 | Data Set Specification | Performance and Data Working Group
The Safety in out-of-home care Data Set Specification (DSS) describes data for each child in at least one funded out-of-home care placement in the reference period, and whether they were the subject of a substantiation where the person believed responsible was living in the household. This information is only reported for 2008-09 (i.e. historical information from previous years is not collected for this data set specification.) Funded out-of-home care placements are defined as out-of-home overni...
Recorded: Community Services (retired)

Sibling file cluster

525049 | Data Set Specification | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The Sibling file cluster contains information about the sibling relationships of children in funded out-of-home care placements on the night of 30 June 2013 (regardless of whether they are on an order). For inclusion in the Sibling file, the subject child must be in a funded out-of-home care placement on the night of 30 June, and have at least one known sibling in a funded out-of-home care placement on the night of 30 June (regardless of whether they are in the same placement).
Recorded: Community Services (retired)
Superseded: Children and Families

Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) cluster

388904 | Data Set Specification | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
The person level geographical location data elements in this cluster refer to the person's usual residence. This is defined below. When collecting the geographical location of a person's usual place of residence, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) recommends that 'usual' be defined as: 'the place where the person has or intends to live for 6 months or more, or the place that the person regards as their main residence, or where the person has no other residence, the place they currently ...
Recorded: Health
Superseded: Community Services (retired), Early Childhood

Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) cluster 2010

436197 | Data Set Specification | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
The person level geographical location data elements in this cluster refer to the person's usual residence. This is defined below. When collecting the geographical location of a person's usual place of residence, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) recommends that 'usual' be defined as: 'the place where the person has or intends to live for 6 months or more, or the place that the person regards as their main residence, or where the person has no other residence, the place they currently ...
Superseded: Early Childhood, Community Services (retired)

Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) cluster 2011

477111 | Data Set Specification | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
The person level geographical location data elements in this cluster refer to the person's usual residence. This is defined below. When collecting the geographical location of a person's usual place of residence, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) recommends that 'usual' be defined as: 'the place where the person has or intends to live for 6 months or more, or the place that the person regards as their main residence, or where the person has no other residence, the place they currently ...
Standard: Community Services (retired), Disability
Superseded: Early Childhood

Statistical linkage key 581 cluster

349510 | Data Set Specification | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
Statistical data linkage refers to the bringing together of data from different sources to gain a greater understanding of a situation or individual from the combined (or linked) dataset. This facilitates a better understanding of the patterns of service use by groups of clients for research, statistical or policy analysis, planning and evaluation purposes. Its form is: XXXXXDDMMYYYYN The sequence in which the linkage key is completed is as follows: Family name (the first 3 Xs) Given name (the 4...
Standard: Community Services (retired), Housing assistance, Early Childhood, Disability
Superseded: Homelessness, Health

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