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 versus Duty of care (access to privileged information)