Final report on the development of the Children's Services National Minimum Data Set

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• Final report on the development of the Children's Services National Minimum Data Set (512KBPDF)

Publication table of contents

• Preliminary material (165KBPDF)
  • Title page and verso
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Summary
• Sections
  1. Introduction (86KBPDF)
  2. The Children's Services Data Working Group (139KBPDF)
  3. Development of the Children's Services National Minimum Data Set (196KBPDF)
     • Review of existing information
     • Initial field test
     • Phase 1 pilot test
     • Phase 2 pilot test
     • Sign-off
  4. Description of the CSNMDS (115KBPDF)
     • Services
     • Workers
     • Children
  5. Next steps (86KBPDF)
     • NCSIMG bid to the Community and Disability Services Ministerial Advisory Council to fund implementation of the CSNMDS
     • Impact of implementation of the CSNMDS
• End matter
  • References (82KB PDF)
  • Appendix A: Current child care and preschool services data collections (83KBPDF)
  • Appendix B: Children's Services Data Working Group (CSDWG) membership at 2 June 2005 (126KPDF)
  • Appendix C: Recommendations and outcomes of the first pilot test (131KBPDF)
  • Appendix D: Recommendations and outcomes of the second pilot test (132KBPDF)
  • Appendix E: Linkage key for use with the CSNMDS (82KBPDF)
  • Appendix F: Final Children's Services National Minimum Data Set Specifications Version 0.4 (535KBPDF)
    • Preface
      1. Introduction
      2. Scope
      3. Collection process
      4. Structure of data definitions
      5. Data definitions
    • Index of data items
  • List of tables (82KBPDF)
  • List of figures (99KB PDF)

Notes and corrections

The current version of the publication is presented above. Previous versions of files that have been updated or corrected are presented below.

1. July 2008: minor corrections were made to pages 16, 55, 63 and 141
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