Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Glossary Item |
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METEOR identifier: | 749539 |
Registration status: | Children and Families, Standard 03/11/2021 |
Definition: | A person held responsible is someone assessed as being responsible for an abusive act (including acts of commission or omission). For instances of abuse of children in care, the person held responsible is someone who is an approved carer, another person living in the household or care facility (including other children), an employee of the responsible care service/agency or government department, or a person not living in the household (only where an approved carer or employee of the responsible care service/agency or government department failed to protect the child or their action/inaction contributed to the abuse). |
Context: | Child protection. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. |
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Origin: | AIHW (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare) 2021. Child protection national minimum data set, data collection manual 2020-21. Canberra: AIHW. |
Relational attributes | |
Metadata items which use this glossary item: | Abuse in care Children and Families, Standard 03/11/2021 Child protection DSS 2022–23 Children and Families, Standard 04/04/2024 Person held responsible for abuse in care code N[N] Children and Families, Standard 04/04/2024 Person—relationship to reference person, held responsible for abuse in care code N[N] Children and Families, Standard 04/04/2024 Safety in care (SC) file cluster Children and Families, Standard 11/05/2023 Safety in care (SC) file cluster Children and Families, Superseded 11/05/2023 |