Data Collection and Information Sharing

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Data Collection and Information Sharing

• Whose information is it anyway?

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What is data?

• A non identifying collection of facts from which
  conclusions may be drawn
• Information about how our services are accessed
  by clients
• For most of us is it just numbers for funding?

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Data Collection

• How do we do data collection?
• How does this impact on Women and Children?
• Why dont we have national standards for
  collection?

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What is information?

• Personal details
• A person/families history
• Their story, told to us by them
• Their story, as retold by another person/agency

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Two ACT Perspectives

• ACT Family Violence Intervention Project
• Womens SAAP Pathways project

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Sharing Information Why?

• Always about safety
• Duty of care
• Duty of care is to children as well as the
  adult(s) involved

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Sharing Information How?

• Need to know basis
• Respectful practices of collecting and using this
  information we are privileged to have within our
  own agencies (start small)
• Memorandum of understanding/protocols
• Legislation such as the ACT Domestic Violence
  Agencies Act 1986 (think big)

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Sharing Information the right to do so

• Consent (confidentiality)
• versus
• Duty of care (access to privileged information)