Family and Child Connect enquiries received by referral source
Source: Department of Children, Youth Justice and Multicultural Affairs.
What is being counted
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Data is for the year ending the reference date (12 months of data).
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Counts the number of enquiries received for Family and Child Connect during the reporting period.
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Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander: A family is identified as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander if one or more people attached to the case are identified as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander.
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Non-Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander: A family where no people attached to the case are identified as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander or their Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander status is unknown.
Definition notes
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Enquiry: Any contact made to a Family and Child Connect service for advice and information and/or referral to other appropriate support services.
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Family and Child Connect: Family and Child Connect (FaCC) are funded non-government community-based intake and referral services that helps families to care for and protect their children at home. Family and Child Connect support vulnerable families by assessing their needs and connecting them with appropriate support services.
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Prescribed entities: Includes the following entities:
- the chief executive
- an authorised officer
- a licensee
- the public guardian
- the chief executive of a department that is mainly responsible for any of the following matters:
- adult corrective services
- community services
- disability services
- education
- housing services
- public health
- the chief executive of the Mater Misericordia Health Services Brisbane Ltd (ACN 096 708 922)
- a health service chief executive within the meaning of the Hospital and Health Boards Act 2011
- the police commissioner
- the principal of a school that is accredited, or provisionally accredited, under the Education (Accreditation of Non-State Schools) Act 2001
- the person in charge of a student hostel
- the chief executive of another entity, that provides a service to children or families, prescribed under a regulation.