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Preliminary material: Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Symbols

Summary

  • Increase in service users and expenditure
  • More service providers
  • Service user characteristics
  1. Introduction

    • Terminology
    • Changes from previous data collections
    • Changes to the report format
  2. About disability support services

    • 2.1 Providers of disability support services
    • 2.2 Number of services provided and service users
    • 2.3 Need for services
    • 2.4 Government expenditure on disability support services
  3. Who uses disability support services?

    • 3.1 Overview
    • 3.2 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander service users
    • 3.4 Location
    • 3.5 Income and employment
    • 3.6 Users of employment services
    • 3.7 New users and user exits
  4. Disability and support needs

    • 4.1 Disability
    • 4.2 Support needs
    • 4.3 Communication needs
  5. Who cares for service users? What are their living arrangements?

    • 5.1 Informal carers
    • 5.2 Older carers
    • 5.3 Carers and living arrangements
  6. Patterns of service use

    • 6.1 Multiple service use
      • Multiple service users
      • Combinations of services accessed
    • 6.2 Measures of service quantity
      • Hours received
      • Hours provided

Appendix 1: About the data collection

  • A1.1 Brief history
  • A1.2 Scope of the collection
  • A1.3 Counts and definitions
  • A1.4 The statistical linkage key
  • A1.5 English proficiency groupings
  • A1.6 Data quality
    • Service type outlet response rate
    • Service user response rate
    • ‘Not stated/not known’ rates
  • A1.7 Calculation of potential population
  • A1.8 Further information

Appendix 2

Appendix 3: Service type classification

  • Accommodation support
    • 1.01 Large residentials/institutions (>20 places)
    • 1.02 Small residentials/institutions (7–20 places)
    • 1.03 Hostels
    • 1.04 Group homes (<7 places)
    • 1.05 Attendant care/personal care
    • 1.06 In-home accommodation support
    • 1.07 Alternative family placement
    • 1.08 Other accommodation support
  • Community support
    • 2.01 Therapy support for individuals
    • 2.02 Early childhood intervention
    • 2.03 Behaviour/specialist intervention
    • 2.04 Counselling (individual/family/group)
    • 2.05 Regional resource and support teams
    • 2.06 Case management, local coordination and development
    • 2.07 Other community support
  • Community access
    • 3.01 Learning and life skills development
    • 3.02 Recreation/holiday programs
    • 3.03 Other community access
  • Respite
    • 4.01 Own home respite
    • 4.02 Centre-based respite/respite homes
    • 4.03 Host family respite/peer support respite
    • 4.04 Flexible respite
    • 4.05 Other respite
  • Employment
    • 5.01 Open employment
    • 5.02 Supported employment
    • 5.03 Open and supported employment
    • 5.04 Targeted support
  • Advocacy, information and alternative forms of communication
    • 6.01 Advocacy
    • 6.02 Information/referral
    • 6.03 Combined information/advocacy
    • 6.04 Mutual support/self-help groups
    • 6.05 Alternative formats of communication
  • Other support
    • 7.01 Research and evaluation
    • 7.02 Training and development
    • 7.03 Peak bodies
    • 7.04 Other support services

Appendix 4: Data items requiring collection by various service types

End matter: References; List of tables; List of boxes and figures