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Person—person identifier, child protection NX[X(11)]

Data Element Attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Element
Short name:Help on this termChild protection person identifier
Synonymous names:Help on this termClient ID; Carer ID
METEOR identifier:Help on this term459397
Registration status:Help on this term

Children and Families, Standard 22/11/2016

Community Services (retired), Recorded 19/08/2011 [Non DictionaryHelp on this term]

Definition:Help on this term

A combination of alphanumeric characters that uniquely identifies a child or carer in the child protection and support services system within a state or territory.

Data Element Concept:Help on this termPerson—person identifier
Value Domain:Help on this termChild protection identifier NX[X(11)]

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Representation class:Help on this termIdentifier
Data type:Help on this termString
Format:Help on this termNX[X(11)]
Maximum character length:Help on this term13
  ValueMeaning
Supplementary values:Help on this term97
 
Not applicable
 

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:Help on this term

A state and territory identifier should be the first character of the ID (N), according to the following Australian Bureau of Statistics' standard:

1. New South Wales

2. Victoria

3. Queensland

4. South Australia

5. Western Australia

6. Tasmania

7. Northern Territory

8. Australian Capital Territory

Note that 9. Other Territories (i.e. Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Christmas Island and Jervis Bay Territory are not separately identified in the child protection data collection.

All alphabetic characters must be in uppercase.

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this term

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Steward:Help on this termAustralian Institute of Health and Welfare

Data element attributes Help on this term

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:Help on this term

This identifier is used to identify a child or a carer across the child protection system.

The unique client identifier should be assigned by the state or territory department responsible for child protection when the child or carer first comes in contact with the department. The same unique identifier should be retained across time.

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this term

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Steward:Help on this termAustralian Institute of Health and Welfare
Origin:Help on this term

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) 2013. Child Protection National Minimum Data Set, data collection manual 2012-13. Canberra: AIHW.

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
Supersedes Person—person identifier, (child protection and support services) NX[X(13)]

        Community Services (retired), Standard 30/04/2008

Implementation in Data Set Specifications:Help on this term
All attributes +
Care and protection order (CPO) DSS Pilot (2010)

        Community Services (retired), Recorded 19/08/2011


Care and protection order (CPO) file cluster

        Children and Families, Superseded 22/11/2016

        Community Services (retired), Recorded 10/10/2014

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2011
Implementation end date: 30/06/2013
DSS specific information:

The person identifier (ID) is the identifier for the child (the child protection client) within a State or Territory. The person ID in the Care and protection order file must appear in the Child Protection client file.


Care and protection order (CPO) file cluster

        Children and Families, Superseded 22/11/2016

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2012
Implementation end date: 30/06/2014
DSS specific information:

The person identifier (ID) is the identifier for the child (the child protection client) within a State or Territory. The person ID in the Care and protection order file must appear in the Child Protection client file.


Care and protection order (CPO) file cluster

        Children and Families, Superseded 22/11/2016

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2013
Implementation end date: 30/06/2015
DSS specific information:

The person identifier (ID) is the identifier for the child (the child protection client) within a State or Territory. The person ID in the Care and protection order file must appear in the Child Protection client file.


Care and protection order (CPO) file cluster

        Children and Families, Superseded 20/04/2018

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2014
Implementation end date: 30/06/2016
DSS specific information:

The person identifier (ID) is the identifier for the child (the child protection client) within a State or Territory. The person ID in the Care and protection order file must appear in the Child Protection client file.


Care and protection order (CPO) file cluster

        Children and Families, Superseded 20/01/2021

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2015
Implementation end date: 30/06/2017
DSS specific information:

The person identifier (ID) is the identifier for the child (the child protection client) within a State or Territory. The person ID in the Care and protection order file must appear in the Child Protection client file.


Care and protection order (CPO) file cluster

        Children and Families, Superseded 11/05/2023

DSS specific attributes +
DSS specific information:

The person identifier (ID) is the identifier for the child (the child protection client) within a State or Territory. The person ID in the Care and protection order file must appear in the Child Protection client file.


Care and protection order (CPO) file cluster

        Children and Families, Standard 11/05/2023

DSS specific attributes +
DSS specific information:

The person identifier (ID) is the identifier for the child (the child protection client) within a State or Territory. The person ID in the Care and protection order file must appear in the Child Protection client file.


Carer demographics file cluster

        Children and Families, Standard 22/11/2016

        Community Services (retired), Recorded 10/10/2014

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2011
Implementation end date: 30/06/2013
DSS specific information:

The person identifier is the identifier of the carer.


Carer household authorisation file cluster

        Children and Families, Superseded 22/11/2016

        Community Services (retired), Recorded 19/03/2014

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2011
Implementation end date: 30/06/2013
DSS specific information:

The person identifier is the Carer ID and is recorded for each individual carer authorised to provide care in a carer household (e.g. Carer ID 1, Carer ID 2, Carer ID 3, etc).


Child protection (CP) client file cluster

        Children and Families, Superseded 22/11/2016

        Community Services (retired), Recorded 09/10/2014

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2011
Implementation end date: 30/06/2013
DSS specific information:

The person identifier (ID) is the identifier for the child (the child protection client). Each ID is used by only one client and each client has only one ID.

The person ID in the Child protection client file must appear in at least one of the Notifications, investigations and substantiations (NIS), Care and protection order (CPO) and/or Living arrangements for children under care (LA) files. All person IDs in the NIS, CPO, LA, National out-of-home care standards, and Sibling files must appear once in the client file.


Child protection (CP) client file cluster

        Children and Families, Superseded 22/11/2016

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2012
Implementation end date: 30/06/2014
DSS specific information:

The person identifier (ID) is the identifier for the child (the child protection client). Each ID is used by only one client and each client has only one ID.

The person ID in the Child protection client file must appear in at least one of the Notifications, investigations and substantiations (NIS), Care and protection order (CPO) and/or Living arrangements for children under care (LA) files. All person IDs in the NIS, CPO, LA, National out-of-home care standards, and Sibling files must appear once in the client file.


Child protection (CP) client file cluster

        Children and Families, Superseded 22/11/2016

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2013
Implementation end date: 30/06/2015
DSS specific information:

The person identifier (ID) is the identifier for the child (the child protection client). Each ID is used by only one client and each client has only one ID.

The person ID in the Child protection client file must appear in at least one of the Notifications, investigations and substantiations (NIS), Care and protection order (CPO) and/or Living arrangements for children under care (LA) files. All person IDs in the NIS, CPO, LA, National out-of-home care standards, and Sibling files must appear once in the client file.


Child protection (CP) client file cluster

        Children and Families, Superseded 20/04/2018

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2014
Implementation end date: 30/06/2016
DSS specific information:

The person identifier (ID) is the identifier for the child (the child protection client). Each ID is used by only one client and each client has only one ID.

The person ID in the Child protection client file must appear in at least one of the Notifications, investigations and substantiations (NIS), Care and protection order (CPO) and/or Living arrangements for children under care (LA) files. All person IDs in the NIS, CPO, LA, National out-of-home care standards, and Sibling files must appear once in the client file.


Child protection (CP) client file cluster

        Children and Families, Superseded 20/01/2021

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2015
Implementation end date: 30/06/2017
DSS specific information:

The person identifier (ID) is the identifier for the child (the child protection client). Each ID is used by only one client and each client has only one ID.

The person ID in the Child protection client file must appear in at least one of the Notifications, investigations and substantiations (NIS), Care and protection order (CPO) and/or Living arrangements for children under care (LA) files. All person IDs in the NIS, CPO, LA, National out-of-home care standards, and Sibling files must appear once in the client file.


Child protection (CP) client file cluster

        Children and Families, Superseded 03/11/2021

DSS specific attributes +
DSS specific information:

The person identifier (ID) is the identifier for the child (the child protection client). Each ID is used by only one client and each client has only one ID.

The person ID in the Child protection client file must appear in at least one of the Notifications, investigations and substantiations (NIS), Care and protection order (CPO) and/or Living arrangements for children under care (LA) files. All person IDs in the NIS, CPO, LA, National out-of-home care standards, and Sibling files must appear once in the client file.


Child protection (CP) client file cluster

        Children and Families, Standard 03/11/2021

DSS specific attributes +
DSS specific information:

The person identifier (ID) is the identifier for the child (the child protection client). Each ID is used by only one client and each client has only one ID.

The person ID in the Child protection client file must appear in at least one of the Notifications, investigations and substantiations (NIS), Care and protection order (CPO) and/or Living arrangements for children under care (LA) files. All person IDs in the NIS, CPO, LA, National out-of-home care standards, and Sibling files must appear once in the client file.


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

        Community Services (retired), Recorded 19/08/2011


Child protection client alias cluster

        Community Services (retired), Recorded 19/08/2011

DSS specific attributes +
DSS specific information: This item is collected at least twice in the client alias file. The first occurence of this data element must match the identifier in the Child protection and support services (CPSS) client DSS exactly. The second and subsequent occurrences are identifiers which may have been allocated prior to the child being identified as an existing client.

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

        Community Services (retired), Recorded 19/08/2011

DSS specific attributes +
DSS specific information:

This data element is collected twice in the Living arrangements for children under care DSS:

  • for the child within a state or territory’s child protection system and
  • for the  carer, i.e. an individual that provides funded out-of-home care within a state or territory’s child protection system

Living arrangements for children under care (LA) file cluster

        Children and Families, Standard 22/11/2016

        Community Services (retired), Recorded 10/10/2014

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2011
Implementation end date: 30/06/2013
DSS specific information:

The person identifier (ID) is the identifier for the child (the child protection client). Each ID is used by only one client and each client has only one ID.
 
The person ID in the Living arrangements file must appear in the Client file.


Living arrangements for children under care (LA) file cluster

        Children and Families, Superseded 22/11/2016

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2012
Implementation end date: 30/06/2014
DSS specific information:

The person identifier (ID) is the identifier for the child (the child protection client). Each ID is used by only one client and each client has only one ID.
 
The person ID in the Living arrangements file must appear in the Client file.


Living arrangements for children under care (LA) file cluster

        Children and Families, Superseded 22/11/2016

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2013
Implementation end date: 30/06/2015
DSS specific information:

The person identifier (ID) is the identifier for the child (the child protection client). Each ID is used by only one client and each client has only one ID.
 
The person ID in the Living arrangements file must appear in the Client file.


Living arrangements for children under care (LA) file cluster

        Children and Families, Superseded 20/04/2018

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2014
Implementation end date: 30/06/2016
DSS specific information:

The person identifier (ID) is the identifier for the child (the child protection client). Each ID is used by only one client and each client has only one ID.
 
The person ID in the Living arrangements file must appear in the Client file.


Living arrangements for children under care (LA) file cluster

        Children and Families, Superseded 20/01/2021

DSS specific attributes +
DSS specific information:

The person identifier (ID) is the identifier for the child (the child protection client). Each ID is used by only one client and each client has only one ID.
 
The person ID in the Living arrangements file must appear in the Client file.


Living arrangements for children under care (LA) file cluster

        Children and Families, Superseded 20/01/2021

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2015
Implementation end date: 30/06/2017
DSS specific information:

The person identifier (ID) is the identifier for the child (the child protection client). Each ID is used by only one client and each client has only one ID.
 
The person ID in the Living arrangements file must appear in the Client file.


Living arrangements for children under care (LA) file cluster

        Children and Families, Superseded 03/11/2021

DSS specific attributes +
DSS specific information:

The person identifier (ID) is the identifier for the child (the child protection client). Each ID is used by only one client and each client has only one ID.
 
The person ID in the Living arrangements file must appear in the Client file.


Living arrangements for children under care (LA) file cluster

        Children and Families, Standard 11/05/2023

DSS specific attributes +
DSS specific information:

The person identifier (ID) is the identifier for the child (the child protection client). Each ID is used by only one client and each client has only one ID.
 
The person ID in the Living arrangements file must appear in the Client file.


Living arrangements for children under care (LA) file cluster

        Children and Families, Superseded 11/05/2023

DSS specific attributes +
DSS specific information:

The person identifier (ID) is the identifier for the child (the child protection client). Each ID is used by only one client and each client has only one ID.
 
The person ID in the Living arrangements file must appear in the Client file.


National out-of-home care standards (NOOHCS) file cluster

        Children and Families, Superseded 22/11/2016

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2012
Implementation end date: 30/06/2014
DSS specific information:

 This identifier is for the child.


National out-of-home care standards (NOOHCS) file cluster

        Children and Families, Superseded 22/11/2016

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2013
Implementation end date: 30/06/2015
DSS specific information:

 This identifier is for the child.


National out-of-home care standards (NOOHCS) file cluster

        Children and Families, Superseded 20/04/2018

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2014
Implementation end date: 30/06/2016
DSS specific information:

 This identifier is for the child.


National out-of-home care standards (NOOHCS) file cluster

        Children and Families, Standard 20/01/2021

DSS specific attributes +
DSS specific information:

 This identifier is for the child.


National out-of-home care standards (NOOHCS) file cluster

        Children and Families, Superseded 20/01/2021

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2015
Implementation end date: 30/06/2017
DSS specific information:

 This identifier is for the child.


National Out-of-Home Care Standards (NOOHCS) file cluster

        Children and Families, Superseded 22/11/2016

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2012
Implementation end date: 30/06/2013
DSS specific information:

 This identifier is for the child.


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

        Community Services (retired), Recorded 19/08/2011

DSS specific attributes +
DSS specific information:

The identifier recorded under this data element should match the identifier recorded in the Child protection and support services (CPSS) client DSS.


Notifications, investigations, and substantiations (NIS) file cluster

        Children and Families, Superseded 22/11/2016

        Community Services (retired), Recorded 09/10/2014

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2011
Implementation end date: 30/06/2013
DSS specific information:

The identifier should match the child's identifier in the Child protection (CP) client file cluster.


Notifications, investigations, and substantiations (NIS) file cluster

        Children and Families, Superseded 22/11/2016

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2012
Implementation end date: 30/06/2014
DSS specific information:

The identifier should match the child's identifier in the Child protection (CP) client file cluster.


Notifications, investigations, and substantiations (NIS) file cluster

        Children and Families, Superseded 22/11/2016

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2013
Implementation end date: 30/06/2015
DSS specific information:

The identifier should match the child's identifier in the Child protection (CP) client file cluster.


Notifications, investigations, and substantiations (NIS) file cluster

        Children and Families, Superseded 20/04/2018

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2014
Implementation end date: 30/06/2016
DSS specific information:

The identifier should match the child's identifier in the Child protection (CP) client file cluster.


Notifications, investigations, and substantiations (NIS) file cluster

        Children and Families, Superseded 20/01/2021

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2015
Implementation end date: 30/06/2017
DSS specific information:

The identifier should match the child's identifier in the Child protection (CP) client file cluster.


Notifications, investigations, and substantiations (NIS) file cluster

        Children and Families, Superseded 03/11/2021

DSS specific attributes +
DSS specific information:

The identifier should match the child's identifier in the Child protection (CP) client file cluster.


Notifications, investigations, and substantiations (NIS) file cluster

        Children and Families, Standard 11/05/2023

DSS specific attributes +
DSS specific information:

The identifier should match the child's identifier in the Child protection (CP) client file cluster.


Notifications, investigations, and substantiations (NIS) file cluster

        Children and Families, Superseded 11/05/2023

DSS specific attributes +
DSS specific information:

The identifier should match the child's identifier in the Child protection (CP) client file cluster.


Safety in care (SC) file cluster

        Children and Families, Superseded 03/11/2021

DSS specific attributes +
DSS specific information:

The person identifier (ID) is the identifier for the child (the child protection client). Each ID is used by only one client and each client has only one ID.


Safety in care (SC) file cluster

        Children and Families, Standard 11/05/2023

DSS specific attributes +
DSS specific information:

The person identifier (ID) is the identifier for the child (the child protection client). Each ID is used by only one client and each client has only one ID.


Safety in care (SC) file cluster

        Children and Families, Superseded 11/05/2023

DSS specific attributes +
DSS specific information:

The person identifier (ID) is the identifier for the child (the child protection client). Each ID is used by only one client and each client has only one ID.


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

        Community Services (retired), Recorded 19/08/2011


Sibling file cluster

        Children and Families, Superseded 22/11/2016

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2012
Implementation end date: 30/06/2014
DSS specific information:

Each child protection client (child) has a unique person identifier (ID). Each person ID is used by only one client and each client has only one ID.

The person ID of the subject child in funded out-of-home care and the person ID of each known sibling (of the subject child) in a funded out-of-home care placement on the night of 30 June (regardless of whether they are in the same placement) is recorded.

For each two-person relationship each person identifier will be recorded twice; once as the subject child Person ID and once as the sibling Person ID.


Sibling file cluster

        Children and Families, Superseded 22/11/2016

        Community Services (retired), Recorded 04/10/2014

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2012
Implementation end date: 30/06/2013
DSS specific information:

Each child protection client (child) has a unique person identifier (ID). Each person ID is used by only one client and each client has only one ID.

The person ID of the subject child in funded out-of-home care and the person ID of each known sibling (of the subject child) in a funded out-of-home care placement on the night of 30 June (regardless of whether they are in the same placement) is recorded.

For each two-person relationship each person identifier will be recorded twice; once as the subject child Person ID and once as the sibling Person ID.


Sibling file cluster

        Children and Families, Superseded 22/11/2016

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2013
Implementation end date: 30/06/2015
DSS specific information:

Each child protection client (child) has a unique person identifier (ID). Each person ID is used by only one client and each client has only one ID.

The person ID of the subject child in funded out-of-home care and the person ID of each known sibling (of the subject child) in a funded out-of-home care placement on the night of 30 June (regardless of whether they are in the same placement) is recorded.

For each two-person relationship each person identifier will be recorded twice; once as the subject child Person ID and once as the sibling Person ID.


Sibling file cluster

        Children and Families, Superseded 20/04/2018

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2014
Implementation end date: 30/06/2016
DSS specific information:

Each child protection client (child) has a unique person identifier (ID). Each person ID is used by only one client and each client has only one ID.

The person ID of the subject child in funded out-of-home care and the person ID of each known sibling (of the subject child) in a funded out-of-home care placement on the night of 30 June (regardless of whether they are in the same placement) is recorded.

For each two-person relationship each person identifier will be recorded twice; once as the subject child Person ID and once as the sibling Person ID.


Sibling file cluster

        Children and Families, Standard 20/01/2021

DSS specific attributes +
DSS specific information:

Each child protection client (child) has a unique person identifier (ID). Each person ID is used by only one client and each client has only one ID.

The person ID of the subject child in funded out-of-home care and the person ID of each known sibling (of the subject child) in a funded out-of-home care placement on the night of 30 June (regardless of whether they are in the same placement) is recorded.

For each two-person relationship each person identifier will be recorded twice; once as the subject child Person ID and once as the sibling Person ID.


Sibling file cluster

        Children and Families, Superseded 20/01/2021

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2015
Implementation end date: 30/06/2017
DSS specific information:

Each child protection client (child) has a unique person identifier (ID). Each person ID is used by only one client and each client has only one ID.

The person ID of the subject child in funded out-of-home care and the person ID of each known sibling (of the subject child) in a funded out-of-home care placement on the night of 30 June (regardless of whether they are in the same placement) is recorded.

For each two-person relationship each person identifier will be recorded twice; once as the subject child Person ID and once as the sibling Person ID.


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