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Definition

A code recorded as a logical combination of alphanumeric characters of the type of service/s selected for referral to providers external to the organisation.

Components

Data Element (this item)

Representation

This representation is based on the value domain for this data element, more information is available at " Identifier N(5) ".
Data Type NUMBERSTRING
Format N(5)
Maximum character length 5

Comments

Referral To is a reference table from DSS (see fdp-child-protection-prod:tei_bdm.tei_ref_referral_to ) with a primary key to look up the reasons clients are referred to other services, either internally or externally. There are 14 reasons clients be referred and there can be more than 1 reasons clients are referred at any given time. Each reason in the Referral To table is a binary value representing yes or no. The primary key is an integer representing the different combination of binary values across different reason code. For example, primary key value 20 means the reason Training and Caring have a value of 1 (i.e. yes) and for all other reasons they have a value of 0 (i.e. no). In total, there are over 16,000 different primary key representing all possible combinations of the 14 different reason codes.

eg:

Age Caring Community EducEmpl Employment Family Housing Material Mental Money Other Personal Physical Training
0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0

References

Services Type for Referral

Value

Meaning

AGE

Age-appropriate development: where the client is seeking to improve age-appropriate development.

CARING

Caring

COMMUNITY

Community participation and networks: where the client is seeking to change the impact of poor community participation and networks on their independence, participation and wellbeing.-

EDUCEMPL

Education / employment

EMPLOYMENT

Employment: to change the impact of a client’s lack of employment on their independence, participation and wellbeing.

FAMILY

Family functioning: where the client is seeking to improve family functioning and change its impact on their independence, participation and wellbeing.

HOUSING

Housing: where the client is seeking to improve their housing stability or address the impact of poor housing on their independence, participation and wellbeing.

MATERIAL

Material wellbeing and basic necessities: to address the client’s immediate lack of money and basic items needed for day-to-day living and to improve their independence, participation and wellbeing.

MENTAL

Mental health, wellbeing and self-care: where the client is seeking to change the impact of mental health issues and self-care issues on their independence, participation and wellbeing.

MONEY

Financial Resilience: where the client is seeking to improve financial resilience and change its impact to improve the client’s independence, participation and wellbeing.

PERSONAL

Personal and family safety: where the client is seeking to change the impact of personal and family safety issues on their independence, participation and wellbeing.

PHYSICAL

Physical health: where the client is seeking to change the impact of their physical health on their independence, participation and wellbeing.

TRAINING

Education and skills training: where the client is seeking to engage with education and skills training to improve their independence, participation and wellbeing.

OTHER

Other

Related content

Relation Count
Input in Derivations 1
Output in Derivations 1
Inclusion in Data Set Specifications 0
Inclusion in Data Distributions 1
As a numerator in an Indicator 3
As a denominator in an Indicator 0
As a disaggregation in an Indicator 0