Youth Justice Offence file cluster

DSS specific information:

A person identifier is a jurisdictionally-specific code that uniquely identifies a young person (youth justice client) within the State or Territory youth justice department responsible for the young person.

A State or Territory identifier should be the first character of the person identifier according to the following:

1 = New South Wales
2 = Victoria
3 = Queensland
4 = South Australia
5 = Western Australia
6 = Tasmania
7 = Northern Territory
8 = Australian Capital Territory
9 = Other territories (e.g. Christmas Island)

DSS specific information:

The offence identifier allows for a single offence to be mapped to multiple orders.

For example, a young person is serving a sentence in detention for offence type 1350. They are released on parole/supervised release in relation to this offence.

The first record shows the young person was supervised under order ID 12 (the sentenced detention) in relation to offence type 1350. In the second record, the offence is the same as in the first record because a) the offence types are the same and b) the offence ID is the same. A second record is required because the order ID is different (the parole order).

If the offence identifier matches the offence identifier of another record for the same person identifier, the offence types must be the same.

No null values.

DSS specific information:

The offence identifier allows for a single offence to be mapped to multiple orders.

For example, a young person is serving a sentence in detention for offence type 1350. They are released on parole/supervised release in relation to this offence.

The first record shows the young person was supervised under order ID 12 (the sentenced detention) in relation to offence type 1350. In the second record, the offence is the same as in the first record because a) the offence types are the same and b) the offence ID is the same. A second record is required because the order ID is different (the parole order).

If the offence identifier matches the offence identifier of another record for the same person identifier, the offence types must be the same.

No null values.

DSS specific information:

For the purposes of the Youth Justice NMDS, this unique identifier is retained across collection periods. The identifier is assigned by the State or Territory youth justice department.

This item uniquely identifies each supervised (sentenced) order. The order identifier links the offence type with an order in the Order file of the YJ NMDS. Each order in the Order file should have one or more records in the Offence file.

DSS specific information:

This item is collected for the court in which the young person appeared when placed on the order relating to the offence.

Suburb and postcode information

From July 2020, an all-inclusive list of postcodes and suburbs will be used to check postcodes in the YJ NMDS. This list consists of unique postcodes and suburbs across all current and historical versions of postcode data purchased by the AIHW.

For the most current list of valid postcodes and suburbs, go to http://www.postconnect.com.au/postcode-data.