Service provider organisation (service type)—number of licensed places, N[NN]
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Number of licensed places |
METEOR identifier: | 315200 |
Registration status: | Community Services (retired), Standard 19/12/2007 |
Definition: | The total number of places an agency is legally authorised to operate for a service type. |
Data Element Concept: | Service provider organisation—number of licensed places |
Value Domain: | Number N[NN] |
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Representational attributes | ||
Representation class: | Total | |
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Data type: | Number | |
Format: | N[NN] | |
Maximum character length: | 3 |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Comments: | This data element helps in gaining a greater understanding of service capacity. |
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Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Children’s Services Data Working Group. |
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Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Children's Services NMDS Community Services (retired), Superseded 21/05/2010 DSS specific information: In the Children's Services NMDS, this is the maximum number of child care and preschool places licensed at a service where service activities are delivered. The number of licensed places in a child care or preschool service is equivalent to the maximum number of children allowed by regulation to attend at any one time. Licensing includes education department regulations relating to the maximum number of children per preschool class in government schools. Licensing provisions or regulations exist for many, but not all, types of child care and preschool services, and this is not uniform across the states and territories. Where licensing or regulated numbers do not apply to any of the child care or preschool services delivered at the service record 000. Question: How many places are you licensed to provide at any one time in this service? |