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Definition

The Centre file contains details on the centres administered and operated by juvenile justice agencies where young people are detained while under the supervision of the relevant juvenile justice agency on a supervised order or legal arrangement. It includes a sub-cluster with information about escapes from custody (either a detention centre or other legal custody outside the detention centre).

Metadata items in this Data Set Specification

Below is a list of all the components within this Dataset Specification.
Each entry includes the item name, whether the item is optional, mandatory or conditional and the maximum times the item can occur in a dataset.
If the items must occur in a particular order in the dataset, the sequence number is included before the item name.


Data Elements
Reference Data Element Data Type Length Inclusion #
Service episode—reporting period, YYYY-YY - - mandatory 1
Service provider organisation (address)—Australian postcode, code (Postcode datafile) {NNNN} Number 4 mandatory 1
Service provider organisation (name)—organisation name, text X[X(199)]
Specific Information:

Guide for use - Centre file

This Data Element is used in the Centre file cluster to record the name of the reporting juvenile justice remand or detention centre. If there are multiple units within a single custodial facility, record the name of the main facility or unit responsible for administration.

- - mandatory 1
Service provider organisation—custody location, code N String 1 mandatory 1
Service provider organisation—design capacity, total beds N[NNNNN] - - mandatory 1
Service provider organisation—number of detainees, total N[NNNNN]
Specific Information:
Guide for use

Sum the number of young people in detention each day over the 12-month reporting period. For example, if there were 30 young people in detention each day over the 12-month reporting period, multiple 30 by 365 (the number of days in the reporting period).

If providing data for multiple reporting periods, provide a record for each reporting period.

- - mandatory 1
Service provider organisation—number of escapes, total N[NN] - - conditional 1

Comments

Guide for use:

The Juvenile Justice Centre file cluster contains the following Data Elements:

  • Service provider organisation (name)—organisation name, text [X(200)]
  • Service provider organisation (address)—Australian postcode, code (Postcode datafile) {NNNN}
  • Service provider organisation—design capacity, total beds N[NNNNN]
  • Service provider organisation—number of detainees, total N[NNNNN]
  • Custody Escapes cluster
  • - Service provider organisation - custody location, code N
  • - Service provider organisation—number of escapes, total N[NN]
  • Service episode - reporting period, YYYY-YY

References

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Relation Count
As a numerator in an Indicator 0
As a denominator in an Indicator 0
As a disaggregation in an Indicator 0