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Definition

Data is recorded about referrals made to other services to reflect a client’s need for help outside the scope of the funded activity. Referrals are recorded at the session level and can include one internal and one external type of referral per session record. Where more than one referral of each type is made, they are recorded in a separate session.

Data source details

Path name Data Element Definition Data Type Format
ReferralToKey Data Exchange: Referral To Key, Referral Identifier N(5) A binary representation of the type of service/s identified for a client's referral. NUMBERSTRING N(5)
OTHER Person: Referral purpose - Other, No/Yes Code N

A code representing whether a client is seeking assistance for, or being referred to services for issues other than those specifically detailed.


Specific Information:

Used when the purpose of referral is not one of the following:

  • Physical health
  • Personal and family safety
  • Age-appropriate development
  • Community participation and networks
  • Family functioning
  • Financial Resilience
  • Employment
  • Education and skills training
  • Material wellbeing and basic necessities
  • Housing
  • Support to caring role
NUMBERSTRING N
MATERIAL Person: Referral purpose - Material wellbeing, No/Yes Code N

A code representing whether a client is seeking assistance for, or being referred to services 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.

NUMBERSTRING N
AGE Person: Referral purpose - Age-appropriate development, No/Yes Code N

A code representing whether a client is seeking assistance for, or being referred to services to improve age-appropriate development.

NUMBERSTRING N
FAMILY Person: Referral purpose - Family functioning, No/Yes Code N

A code representing whether a client is seeking assistance for, or being referred to services to improve family functioning and change its impact on their independence, participation and wellbeing.

NUMBERSTRING N
COMMUNITY Person: Referral purpose - Community participation, No/Yes Code N

A code representing whether a client is seeking assistance for, or being referred to services to change the impact of poor community participation and networks on their independence, participation and wellbeing.

NUMBERSTRING N
MONEY Person: Referral purpose - Financial resilience, No/Yes Code N

A code representing whether a client is seeking assistance for, or being referred to services to improve financial resilience and change its impact to improve the client’s independence, participation and wellbeing.

NUMBERSTRING N
HOUSING Person: Referral purpose - Housing, No/Yes Code N

A code representing whether a client is seeking assistance for, or being referred to services to improve their housing stability or address the impact of poor housing on their independence, participation and wellbeing.

NUMBERSTRING N
MENTAL Person: Referral purpose - Mental health, No/Yes Code N

A code representing whether a client is seeking assistance for, or being referred to services to change the impact of mental health issues and self-care on their independence, participation and wellbeing.

NUMBERSTRING N
PHYSICAL Person: Referral purpose - Physical health, No/Yes Code N

A code representing whether a client is seeking assistance for, or being referred to services to assist with the impact of their physical health on their independence, participation and wellbeing.

NUMBERSTRING N
TRAINING Person: Referral purpose - Education and Training, No/Yes Code N

A code representing whether a client is seeking assistance for, or being referred to services to help with the impact of a client’s inability to engage with education and skills training on their independence, participation and wellbeing.

NUMBERSTRING N
PERSONAL Person: Referral purpose - Personal and family safety, No/Yes Code N

A code representing whether a client is seeking assistance for, or being referred to services to change the impact of personal and family safety issues on their independence, participation and wellbeing.

NUMBERSTRING N
CARING Person: Referral purpose - Caring support, No/Yes Code N

A code representing whether a client is seeking assistance for, or being referred to services to help with their caring responsibilities.

NUMBERSTRING N
EMPLOYMENT Person: Referral purpose - Employment, No/Yes Code N

A code representing whether a client is seeking assistance for, or being referred to services to change the impact of a client’s lack of employment on their independence, participation and wellbeing.

NUMBERSTRING N
EDUCEMPL Person: Referral purpose - Education & Employment, No/Yes Code N

A code representing whether a client is seeking assistance for, or being referred to services to change the impact of a client’s lack of employment or ability to engage with education on their independence, participation and wellbeing.

NUMBERSTRING N
INGESTTIME Record: DateTime Stamp, YYYY-MM-DD

A sequence of characters or encoded information identifying when a certain event occurred, on what day, and optionally including what particular time of day.

DATETIME YYYY-MM-DD(T00:00:00)
INGESTTYPE Record: Ingest Type, Label A(6)

File (data) ingestion process type, represented by a label.

ALPHASTRING A(6)
FILENAME Record: Filename, Text X(200)

File name (data) ingested into BigQuery, represented by text.

ALPHANUMERICSTRING X(200)
BATCHID Record: Batch Id, Text X(200)

System generated identification generated when (data) ingested into BigQuery, represented by text.

ALPHANUMERICSTRING X(200)