Person (address)—suburb/town/locality name, text A[A(49)]

DSS specific information:

In the Child Protection NMDS, this data element is collected a minimum of three times:

• the suburb/town/locality name where the child was living at the time of the notification;
• the full name of the general locality containing the specific residential address of the child immediately prior to their entry into their first ever out-of-home care placement; and
• the full name of the general locality containing the specific address of the out-of-home care placement.

DSS specific information:

In the Child Protection NMDS, this data element is collected a minimum of three times:

• the suburb/town/locality name where the child was living at the time of the notification;
• the full name of the general locality containing the specific residential address of the child immediately prior to their entry into their first ever out-of-home care placement; and
• the full name of the general locality containing the specific address of the out-of-home care placement.

DSS specific information:

In the Child Protection NMDS, this data element is collected a minimum of three times:

• the suburb/town/locality name where the child was living at the time of the contact;
• the full name of the general locality containing the specific residential address of the child immediately prior to their entry into their first ever out-of-home care placement; and
• the full name of the general locality containing the specific address of the out-of-home care placement.

DSS specific information:

In the Child Protection NMDS, this data element is collected a minimum of three times:

• the suburb/town/locality name where the child was living at the time of the contact;
• the full name of the general locality containing the specific residential address of the child immediately prior to their entry into their first ever out-of-home care placement; and
• the full name of the general locality containing the specific address of the out-of-home care placement.

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In the Children's Services NMDS, this data element is only relevant to children who receive in-home child care services. It refers to the child's in-home address. It is used in conjunction with the data element Postcode—Australian (person).

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For data collection using Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI), the suggested question is:

What is your suburb, town or community?

(Single response)

Enter town/suburb/community.

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For data collection using Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI), the suggested question is:

What is your suburb, town or community?

(Single response)

Enter town/suburb/community.

Implementation start date: 01/07/2010

Implementation start date: 01/07/2011

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Implementation start date: 24/09/2009

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Guide for use - Detention file

A Suburb/Town/Locality may be a town, city, suburb or commonly used location name such as a large agricultural property or Aboriginal community. The name should be spelt correctly and consistently and should not be a juvenile justice detention facility.

Enter ‘Unknown’ where the locality name or geographic area is not known.

Enter ‘No fixed address’ where the young person has no fixed address or is homeless.

Implementation start date: 01/07/2005

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This data element refers to the suburb/town/locality name of the client's last known home address prior to coming under the supervision or case management of the agency.

This is to be recorded for each juvenile justice client on entry to each juvenile justice episode.
A question to be asked of juvenile justice clients may be ‘where do you live?' or ‘what was your most recent home address?’
A juvenile justice remand/detention centre should not be recorded as the last known home address. The data item refers to last known home address of the client prior to being held in a centre or on supervision.

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In the SAAP NMDS, the suburb or town location of the client's last home is recorded. This is defined as the location where the client last lived in a home in which they were safe, for which they had security of tenure, and that was adequate in terms of the amenities or resources necessary for living.

Implementation start date: 01/07/2011

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In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is reported twice, for:

• where the person lived one week before the first service contact (the Service episode—episode start date, DDMMYYYY); and
• where the person lived the last time they had a permanent place to live.

Implementation start date: 01/07/2012

Implementation end date: 30/06/2013

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In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is reported twice, for:

• where the person lived one week before the first service contact (the Service episode—episode start date, DDMMYYYY); and
• where the person lived the last time they had a permanent place to live.