Community services agency
Object Class Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Object Class |
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Synonymous names: | Agency |
METEOR identifier: | 268954 |
Registration status: | Community Services (retired), Retired 04/04/2006 |
Definition: | An organisation or organisational sub-unit that is responsible for the provision of community services to clients. |
Context: | Defining agency is extremely important for data collection, as it is the level at which most data are collected in the community services area. An agency may or may not directly provide the services to clients, but is responsible for their provision, whether directly, administratively or via allocation of funds. Sometimes agencies may contract out or broker the assistance required by their clients to other service providers. Although the agency may not directly provide the assistance in these cases, the agency paying for the assistance to clients is considered responsible for that assistance and should be able to report on those clients and the assistance they receive. Regardless of the way in which an organisation is funded, an agency is the level of the organisation responsible for service provision to clients. In some instances one organisation will have more than one or many agencies. |
Specialisation of: | Organisation |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Origin: | Home and Community Care (HACC) Data Dictionary Version 1.0, 1998 |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Is re-engineered from Agency, version 1, DEC, NCSDD, NCSIMG, Superseded 01/03/2005.pdf (17.5 KB) No registration status |
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