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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

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 Disability support service users

  • 3.1 Overview
  • 3.2 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander service users
  • 3.4 Location and accessibility
  • 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 Informal care and 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

Appendixes

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 Additional tables

Appendix 3 Service type classification

  • Accommodation support
    • 1.01 Large residential facilities/institutions (more than 20 places)
    • 1.02 Small residential facilities/institutions (7–20 places)
    • 1.03 Hostels
    • 1.04 Group homes (less than 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 forms 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 figures; List of boxes

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