New releases
Progress of the Northern Territory Emergency Response Child Health Check initiative: Preliminary results from the Child Health Check and follow-up data collections (19 December 2008)
Eye health among Australian children (7 November 2008)
Juvenile arthritis in Australia (23 October 2008)
Making progress: the health, development and wellbeing of Australia's children and young people (24 September 2008)
Juvenile justice in Australia 2006-07 (27 August 2008)
The Juvenile Justice National Minimum Data Set (JJ NMDS) is a joint project between the Australasian Juvenile Justice Administrators (AJJA) and the AIHW. In Australia, the states and territories are responsible for juvenile justice and there is marked diversity in terms of legislation, policy and practices among jurisdictions. The JJ NMDS provides nationally consistent data on young people's experience of juvenile justice supervision, both in the community and in detention.
In 1999, the currently named Community Services and Disability Ministers' Advisory Group (CDSMAC) agreed to provide funding to the National Community Services Information Management Group (NCSIMG) to help establish the JJ NMDS. Together with the cooperation of AJJA, the AIHW conducted a background study and developed the JJ NMDS (see Report on the development of a juvenile justice NMDS (2001) for more information).
The JJ NMDS was tested and refined during 2002 and 2003 (see Juvenile justice - A new national collection (2004) for more information) and was implemented in 2004. The first report containing data from the JJ NMDS was released in February 2006 and covered 2000-01 to 2003-04. Annual reports are also published (see annual statistical publications for details).