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Data Collection and Information Sharing. Whose information is it anyway?. 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?. Data Collection.
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Data Collection and Information Sharing Whose information is it anyway?
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?
Data Collection • How do we “do” data collection? • How does this impact on Women and Children? • Why don’t we have national standards for collection?
What is “information”? • Personal details • A person/families history • Their story, told to us by them • Their story, as retold by another person/agency
Two ACT Perspectives • ACT Family Violence Intervention Project • Women’s SAAP Pathways project
Sharing Information – Why? • Always about safety • Duty of care • Duty of care is to children as well as the adult(s) involved
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)
Sharing Information – the right to do so • Consent (confidentiality) versus • Duty of care (access to privileged information)