DSS specific information:

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

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

DSS specific information:

'Letters of name' is collected as one item in cell number 2 and is a specific combination of the 2nd, 3rd and 5th letters of the person's family name and the 2nd and 3rd letters of the person's given name.

DSS specific information:

'Letters of name' is collected as one item in cell number 2 and is a specific combination of the 2nd, 3rd and 5th letters of the person's family name and the 2nd and 3rd letters of the person's given name.

DSS specific information:

The young person should be aged 10–25 years at the order start date.

The young person should be aged 10–25 years at the detention start date.

DSS specific information:

This data element is used in the youth justice client file cluster as the date on which the person was first supervised or case managed by the youth justice department (date of first supervised order).

Guide for Use

The date can be before the start of the NMDS (i.e. 1/7/00).

A ‘contact’ is an event that is counted as part of a supervised order (i.e., would be within scope for the YJ NMDS).

Do not include court appearances or other types of contacts.

If the first service contact date is unknown, leave the field blank.

Business rules

The first service contact must be on or before the end of the reporting period.

The first service contact date must be before or equal to the earliest order start date in the YJ NMDS.

The young person's age at the first service contact date (calculated using DOB) should be at least 10 years.