A hierarchical structure exists for the value domain. Recording should be at the 2 digit level.

The types of legal orders or arrangements are described in each jurisdiction’s youth justice legislation. They vary slightly according to the State or Territory. However the value domain provides broad groupings of these legal orders or arrangements to which all jurisdictions should map their specific types of legal arrangements.

1 Pre-court appearance – police referred

CODE 11    Held in youth detention or remand centre or watch house

CODE 12    Other police-referred pre-court arrangements

Other pre-court arrangements is where the youth justice department is responsible for case management or supervision of the young person, such as supervised/conditional bail where the youth justice department is involved with monitoring or supervising the young person.

2 Pre-sentence – court referred or ordered

CODE 21    Remanded

Remanded in a youth detention or remand centre or watchhouse

CODE 23    Home detention bail

CODE 24    Supervised/conditional bail

CODE 25    Other court-referred pre-sentenced arrangements

Other pre-sentence court orders or arrangements is where the youth justice department is responsible for case management or supervision of the young person (such as supervised/conditional bail where the youth justice department is involved with monitoring or supervising the young person).

3 Sentenced

CODE 31    Community-based

Supervision without additional mandated requirements

CODE 32    Other community-based

Supervision and other mandated requirements - requiring some form of obligation or additional element that the client is required to meet, rather than only being supervised or case managed. This obligation could be community work, developmental activity or program attendance (with or without direct supervision by the youth justice department of the work or activity but where the youth justice department is responsible for overall case management of the young person.

CODE 33    Immediate release or suspended detention

CODE 34    Home detention

CODE 35    Detention

CODE 36    Parole or supervised release

CODE 37    Other sentence requiring youth justice supervision or case management

CODE 38    Probation or similar not elsewhere classified

4 Other

CODE 41    Other type of legal arrangement

Other type of legal arrangement is where the young person is supervised or case managed by the youth justice department and not included above

Record information about all orders and legal arrangements requiring supervision or case management by youth justice agencies, even where the orders are concurrent. A client can be recorded as being on multiple orders at any point in time.