Definition
A count of children and young people who have been placed in High-Cost Emergency Arrangements (including Alternative Care Arrangements (ACA), Individual Placement Arrangement (IPA), Short Term Emergency Placement (STEP) and Interim Care Model (ICM)) during the reporting period.
Indicator Summary
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Framework Dimensions
Rationale
To enable monitoring of children and young people in temporary/emergency accommodation. To view the trends in the number of children in Alternative Care Arrangement placements over a period of time to assist with planning and resource allocation.
Calculation rules
- Computation
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Comments
Data limitations:
- In 2017-18 changes were made to OOHC counting rules to better align those with national reporting and to also better reflect the legal status of clients in OOHC. The 2017-18 result for this measure is not directly comparable to historic data previously published.
Data source:
- KiDS – Corporate Information Warehouse (CIW) for annual data up to 2016-17
- ChildStory – Corporate Information Warehouse (CIW) for annual data from 2017-18
Related content
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| Data Sets that are used in this Indicator | 0 |