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COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INFORMATION SYSTEM (CLSIS) COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTRES PROGRAM, AUSTRALIA


DASHBOARD METADATA

Geographic Coverage	Frequency	Data Availability
National New South Wales Victoria Queensland Western Australia South Australia Tasmania ACT Northern Territory Regional LGA ASGC Remoteness Other	More than annual Annual 2-4 yearly Less than 5 yearly Once only Ad hoc	Detailed publication / report publicly available Data cubes / spreadsheets publicly available Agency annual report Customised data - free upon request1 Customised data - charged consultancy1 Not published - may be made available on request1 Not publicly available

Publications

Not routinely published, however, a range of reports are available upon request to the Department with some restrictions around organisation-specific or worker-specific reports.

Purpose

CLSIS records information about client access to Family Violence Prevention Legal Services (FVPLS) and Community Legal Services (CLS).

Description

CLSIS captures demographic information about clients accessing community legal services and family violence prevention legal services as well as what assistance the client received and the type of legal problem that the client had.

CLSIS also captures data about the number of law reform and legal policy activities undertaken by community legal centres. CLSIS captures information about public interest test cases, numbers of cases open, opened and closed during a particular period. CLSIS also includes a domestic violence indicator. Currently, data are only published in relation to Community Legal Services programs.

Collection Type

Administrative by-product

Family and Domestic Violence related content (data items collected)

Data Item	Victim1	Secondary victim2	Offender1 2
Demographics
Age
Sex
Indigenous Status
Disability
Country of Birth
Language spoken
Employment
Education
Income	Source; Scale groups
Geography
Other
Personal data item
Services used / referrals to services counselling legal financial housing crisis other	Service provided to client (information, advice, case work, community education)
Health factors pregnancy alcohol use / substance use mental illness
FDV-related perceptions satisfaction with police response seriousness/ regarded as criminal whether problem in neighbourhood feelings of safety / fear
Prior history of victimisation / offending	Identifies a repeat client but not whether the problem is the same as previous
Known outcomes application for violence order violence order issued offender charged offender went to court offender found guilty offender sentence type child protection involvement time off work / economic costs medical treatment received / type changed routine other
Other personal data items	English proficiency; Family type; Homelessness; Whether client perceives FDV to be an issue in their case; Law type (civil, family, criminal); Problem type (family/domestic violence, child support, divorce, property, child protection, tenancy, credit / debt, consumer complaints, offences against persons)

Data Item	Incident
Location home workplace school/place of education/institution public place other
Relationship between parties married/de facto spouse current / former partner/boyfriend/girlfriend parent-child sibling other member of household other relatives relationships of personal or financial dependency
Weapon use type of weapon
Alcohol involved Substance use involved
Physical injury sustained type of injury
Reported to police reasons for not reporting
Other

• Physical abuse
• Sexual abuse
• Psychological /emotional abuse
• Verbal abuse
• Economic abuse
• Social abuse
• Property damage
• Harassment and stalking

Conceptual Framework Element / Sub-element	Amount of Information Available
	None	Some	Detailed
Context
Environmental Factors
Individual pyscho-social factors
Risk
Community prevalence
Community incidence
Understandings and acknowledgments of risk and safety
Incident
Responses
Informal responses
Formal system responses
Impacts/Outcomes
Programs, Research & Evaluation

Data available for:
Australia
State/Territory (all)
City/Region – by postcode, but can combine on request
Location of service provider – by postcode

Frequency / Timing

Updated monthly
Ad hoc – external reports are produced on request only, subject to any data protocol restrictions.

Collection history

Collection commenced: 1 July 2004 for CLCs and from 1 July 2010 for FVPLS services.

Breaks in series: no

Other details: It has been recommended that services enter past cases to ensure a complete client data base.

Data availability / Dissemination

Access to data may be provided free upon request. Access to some data may be restricted in accordance with data protocols.

Other data sources held by this agency

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (IRIS).
Family violence and family law in Australia; the experiences and views of children and adults from families who separated post-1995 and post-2006.
Shared care parenting arrangements since the 2006 Family Law Reforms: Report to the Australian Government Attorney-General’s Department.