Communities and Justice

Disclosure log


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Reference Number

Description of information provided in response to the access application

Date of decision

Publicly available?

How can I access?
1 HOGIPA16/▮▮▮▮ Characteristics/demographics of residents residing in social housing properties in the Waterloo area that is slated for renewal or replacement under the proposed Central to Eveleigh project. 13/03/2017 Yes Available electronically on website (PDF, 288.7 KB)
2 HOGIPA17/ ▮▮▮ Children in the care of the Minister that were permanently placed in a respite placement. 30/03/2017 Yes Available electronically on website (PDF, 308.6 KB)
3 HOGIPA17/▮ FACS budget data relating to payments made to Life Without Barriers in NSW in the 2015/16 financial year for out-of-home care services. 06/04/2017 Yes Available electronically on website (PDF, 284.4 KB)
4 HOGIPA17/ ▮▮ Information held by FACS, from 30 December 2014 to the date of this application, relating to calls made to the Child Protection Helpline about underage forced marriage. 20/04/2017 Yes Available electronically on website (PDF, 343.7 KB)

5

GIPA17/▮▮▮

The final reports by FACS in relation to the 11 children or young people aged 13 years or younger that were reported to FACS to be at risk of forced marriage.

10/08/2017

Yes

Available electronically on website (PDF, 17.8 MB)

6

GIPA17/▮▮▮

The location of all FACS Ageing Disability and Home Care group homes, large residences and specialist services grouped by district. 14/08/17 Yes

Available electronically on website (PDF, 2.1 MB)

7 GIPA17/▮▮▮         A copy of all minutes and notes from meetings, ministerial updates and interim reports held by the Department of Family and Community Services relating to the Independent Review of Aboriginal  Children and Young People in OOHC in NSW chaired by Professor Megan Davis since the commencement of the review. 02/03/2018 Yes Available electronically on website (PDF, 7.7 MB)
8 GIPA17/▮▮▮ All executive briefing/meeting minutes and emails to or from the Secretary which refer to “not for media”, “not to media” or “not for publication”. 02/03/2018 Yes Available electronically on website (PDF, 6.8 MB)
9 GIPA18/▮▮▮         All correspondence and files between the Office of the Minister for Social Housing and other agencies or Offices in relation to the Questions on Notice asked by the Member for Newtown on 19 October 2017 and 8 February 2018 regarding the Questions tilted as follows:          
  1. Affordable Housing Units.
  2. Privacy Protection and Public Housing closed Circuit Television Footage.
  3. Housing Transfer Wait Times
24/04/2018 Yes Available electronically on website (PDF, 3.5 MB)
10 GIPA18/▮▮▮         Copy of the 30 most recent Ministerial briefings with attachments, for the period prior to, and including the date of the application, provided to Minister Goward. 30/05/2018 Yes Available electronically on website (PDF, 38.7 MB)
11 GIPA18/▮▮▮ Information relating to client fraud involving public housing tenants, including the 20 most recent final reports of substantiated client fraud which have occurred in the greater Sydney area. 06/06/2018 Yes Available electronically on website (PDF, 30.2 MB)
12 GIPA18/▮▮▮ Copies of all briefing papers, minutes, correspondence or other communications between the Department and Minister in relation to temporary accommodation. 15/06/2018 Yes Available electronically on website (PDF, 8.7 MB)
13 GIPA18/▮▮▮ Copy of all information since 1 January 2017, relating to damage caused by public housing tenants and the cost to repair the damage in NSW, including a list of the top 5 substantiated claims of damage to public housing properties in Sydney. 18/07/2018 Yes Available electronically on website (PDF, 39.9 MB)
14 GIPA18/▮▮▮         The amount of funding provided in the 2015/16, 2016/17 and 2017/18 financial years to refuges, and for transitional accommodation, for women escaping domestic and family violence. 14/08/2018 Yes Available electronically on website (PDF, 479.9 KB)
15 GIPA18/▮▮▮         The number of beds available at refuges as at 1 January 2017, and 1 January 2018, for women escaping domestic and family violence in NSW. 14/08/2018 Yes Available electronically on website (PDF, 421.6 KB)

16

GIPA18/▮▮▮

The number of women leaving violence who accessed temporary accommodation from the Department of Family and Community Services.

28/08/2018

Yes

Available electronically on website (PDF, 647.1 KB)

17

GIPA18/▮▮▮

The number of risk of significant harm reports lodged with the Department of Family and Community Services for the Newcastle Local Government Area, broken down by suburb, for the 2016/2017 financial year.

28/08/2018

Yes

Available electronically on website (PDF, 927.3 KB)

18

GIPA18/▮▮▮

The number of men and women accessing temporary accommodation within each district of the Department of Family and Community Services for the 2013/2014 financial year, through to the 2016/2017 financial year.

31/08/2018

Yes

Available electronically on website (PDF, 631.8 KB)

19

GIPA18/▮▮▮

The number of social housing dwellings and tenants in the Newcastle Local Government Area as at 30 June 2017.

04/10/2018

Yes

Available electronically on website (PDF, 1.1 MB)

20

GIPA18/▮▮▮

Copy of final reports or executive briefings or referrals to police in relation to children or young people that were reported to FACS to be at risk of forced marriage since 1 January 2018.

30/10/2018

Yes

Available electronically on website (PDF, 34.3 MB)

21

GIPA18/▮▮▮

A copy of all briefing notes relating to courier services and missing documents, and the number of notifications lodged with the NSW Privacy Commissioner relating to instances where the Department of Family and Community Services lost a client’s documents.

12/11/2018

Yes

Available electronically on website (PDF, 2.9 MB)

22

GIPA18/▮▮▮

The number of risk of significant harm reports lodged with the Department of Family and Community Services in the Canterbury Bankstown Local Government Area.

14/11/2018

Yes

Available electronically on website (PDF, 857.7 KB)

23

GIPA19/▮▮▮

The number of children in Out of Home Care spending the night in Alternative Accommodation each year for the last five years, broken down by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander status

02/07/2019

Yes

Available electronically on website (PDF, 611.0 KB)

24

GIPA19/▮▮▮

Copy of all information since 1 January 2018, relating to substantiated damage caused by public housing tenants to properties in Sydney.

23/08/2019

Yes

Available electronically on website (PDF, 4.2 MB)

25

GIPA19/▮▮▮

Information relating to the Rentstart Bond Loan Scheme for the 2017/18 and 2018/19 financial years, specifically:

  • The number of people who have been recipients of the scheme for each financial year.
  • How much each person received as part of the scheme.
  • How many times have they received payouts (specifying the amount).
  • How much, if any, they have since paid back.

12/12/2019

Yes

Available electronically on website (PDF, 4.9 MB)

26

GIPA19/▮▮▮

As at 30 June 2019, the number of DCJ Housing tenants paying in excess of 30% of their gross household income in rent, and the number of households receiving Rent Choice or any other Private Rental Assistance products paying in excess of 30% of their gross household income on rent.

17/03/2020

Yes

Available electronically on website (PDF, 155.2 KB)

27

GIPA20/▮▮▮

Copies of any Department of Communities and Justice policies or staff guidance concerning Aboriginal Consultation Advisory Panels.

24/03/2020

Yes

Available electronically on website (PDF, 5.6 MB)

28

GIPA20/▮▮▮

Information relating to the adoption of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children or young persons from out-of-home care.

7/08/2020

Yes

Available electronically on website (PDF, 1.1 MB)

29

GIPA20/▮▮▮

The number of Aboriginal applicants that are currently listed on the housing waiting list for the entire state of NSW, and separately for the CS1 allocation zone.

2/11/2020

Yes

Available electronically on website (PDF, 134.5 KB)

30

LEGAL21/▮▮▮▮

The number of strip searches carried out on young people in youth detention centres in NSW

29/04/2021

Yes

Available electronically on website (PDF, 397.3 KB)

31 GIPA21/▮▮▮▮ Copy of the 1998 Operational Procedures Manual for Juvenile Justice Centres

30/08/2021

Yes Available electronically on website (PDF, 120.2 MB)
32 GIPA21/▮▮▮▮ The total number of calls to the NSW Domestic Violence call line for each month of 2020 and 2021.   5/11/2021 Yes Available electronically on website (PDF, 163.0 KB)
33 GIPA21/▮▮▮▮

The number of housing applications on the waiting list for Wilcannia and the total number of persons recorded on the list as at 30 September 2021.

The current average waiting times for those on the list for Wilcannia as at 30 September 2021.

25/11/2021 Yes Available electronically on website (PDF, 165.4 KB)
34 GIPA22/▮▮▮▮

From 26 June 2021 to present, all policies, procedures,

guidelines and directions regarding:

  • Isolation of Corrective Services inmates, including where an inmate has tested positive for COVID-19.
  • Health services in private prisons.
  • Access to AVL suites and phone calls for inmates where isolation is a factor, including where an inmate has tested positive for COVID-19.
  • Access to Legal Representatives for inmates where isolation is a factor, including where an inmate has tested positive for COVID-19.
16/08/2022 Yes Available electronically on website (PDF, 16.2 MB)
35 GIPA22/▮▮▮▮

From 26 June 2021 to present:

  • The number of instances of certain medical events for inmates of Corrective Services NSW.
  • The number of days that inmates have spent in isolation, including where they have tested positive for COVID-19.

Further data related to point 2, including

  • Number of visits from medical staff, time outside of their cell and number of inmates who missed a court hearing.
2/09/2022 Yes Available electronically on website (PDF, 310.3 KB)
36 GIPA22/▮▮▮▮ From 26 June 2021 to present:
  • A breakdown of the cell density for each correctional centre.
  • A comparison of the bed capacity vs beds filled for each prison.
2/09/2022 Yes Available electronically on website (PDF, 854.6 KB)
37 GIPA22/▮▮▮▮ The Supervision Policy for Child Practice Practitioners from 18 August 2018 to 26 July 2019. 26/10/2022 Yes Available electronically on website (PDF, 544.8 KB)

38

GIPA22/▮▮▮▮

The number of parentage orders made in the Supreme Court of NSW under the Surrogacy Act 2010 for the years 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021.

8/12/2022

Yes

Available electronically on website (PDF, 113.2 KB)

39

GIPA22/▮▮▮▮

For  each correctional centre for the financial years 2020-2021 and 2021- 2022:
  • Total Inmate population
  • Operational capacity
  • Number of employees in total
  • Number of use of force incidents
  • Number of assault on staff incidents
  • Number of assault on inmates incidents
  • Number of escape incidents
  • Number of contraband incidents
  • Number of inmates that were subjected to segregation, isolation or monitored calls
  • Number of workers compensation claims
  • Total number of workers compensation claims with a breakdown of types of injury
  • Total number of mental health workers compensation claims and length of time taken to return to work.

23/12/2022

Yes

Available electronically on website (PDF, 1.6 MB)

40

GIPA22/▮▮▮▮

Policies and procedures with respect to the searching of detainees and placating non-compliant and violent juvenile inmates in practice in NSW and at Frank Baxter Juvenile Justice Centre from 2008 to 2014.

16/01/2023

Yes

Available electronically on website (PDF, 6.0 MB)

41

GIPA22/▮▮▮▮

Information in relation to Lithgow Correctional Centre and correctional centres statewide for the period
1 January 2014 to January 2015
  • Number of Use of Force (UOF) incidents with a breakdown of numbers of UOF incidents per month.
  • Breakdown of the number of UOF incidents that the immediate action team were involved.
  • The number of section 24’s where a UOF was used on an inmate and they had to be transferred to hospital.  

3/02/2023

Yes

Available electronically on website (PDF, 235.4 KB)

42

GIPA22/▮▮▮▮

Statistics held by Corrective Services NSW as at the date of a decision on this request, and at 1 January for each year going back to 1 January 2017 regarding:
  • Number of people detained in Corrective Services NSW facilities who are recorded as having a disability.
  • Of the total number expressed  above, a breakdown of the number of participants with disabilities by category (eg, physical, psychosocial, neurological, etc), as categorised or assessed by Corrective Services NSW.
  • Number of people detained in Corrective Services NSW facilities who Corrective Services NSW is aware are participants in the NDIS.

10/02/2023

Yes

Available electronically on website (PDF, 284.6 KB)

43

GIPA22/▮▮▮▮

Statistics held by Youth Justice NSW as at 1 January for each year going back to 1 January 2017 regarding:
  • Number of people detained in Youth Justice NSW facilities who are recorded as having a disability.
  • Of the total number expressed at above, a breakdown of the number of participants with disabilities by category (eg, physical, psychosocial, neurological, etc), as categorised or assessed by Youth Justice NSW.
  • Number of people detained in Youth Justice NSW facilities who Youth Justice NSW is aware are participants in the NDIS.

3/03/2023

Yes

Available electronically on website (PDF, 221.7 KB)

44

GIPA22/▮▮▮▮

A copy of the following policies:

  • Provision of a protective abuse-free environment in the Department of Juvenile Justice Policy - November 1997
  • Client protection and wellbeing policy -
    March 2014
  • Client Protection Policy Reporting Guidelines
  • Client Protection Policy August 2001 

15/03/2023

Yes Available electronically on website (PDF, 32.5 MB)
45 GIPA22/▮▮▮▮

A copy of the finalised Briefing Notes relating to the decision to cancel the Forum Sentencing Program.

31/03/2023

Yes Available electronically on website (PDF, 6.7 MB)
46 GIPA23/▮▮▮▮

The average annual cost of the Professional Individualised Care (PIC) model of foster care (per child or young person) when it was last calculated.

The average annual cost of a child or young person before transferring to the PIC model.

13/04/2023 Yes Available electronically on website (PDF, 179.8 KB)
47 GIPA23/▮▮▮▮

A map of the present NSW District Court jury districts/catchment areas. If no such map exists, then a list of which electoral districts are allocated to which courthouse.

And for each of the 30 NSW courthouse with NSW District Court criminal division sitting dates the present number of:

  • Jury capable courtrooms
  • Courtrooms with a single secure dock
  • Courtrooms with two secure docks
  • Jury capable courtrooms with full AVL capabilities for onsite and offsite remote witness testimony
  • On premises remote AVL witness rooms for vulnerable witnesses

The present courthouse in NSW that tries the largest number of matters in which the alleged events occurred outside the jury district/catchment area. 

31/05/2023

Yes Available electronically on website (PDF, 335.4 KB)
48 GIPA23/▮▮▮▮

From 2016 to present, any report/study regarding older women (aged 55+) experiencing homelessness within NSW and/or Australia.

2/06/2023 Yes Available electronically on website (PDF, 623.4 KB)
49 GIPA22/▮▮▮▮ Documents that provide guidance on the conduct of partially clothed searches of detainees at the centres including, without limitation, instructions, manuals, guidelines, policies and directives.  14/06/2023 Yes Available electronically on website (PDF, 2.9 MB)
50 GIPA23/▮▮▮▮ Statistical information in relation to Youth Justice Detainees (those subject to control and those on remand) who were detained in a Detention Centre operated by Youth Justice NSW and/or Corrective Services NSW and subject to orders of segregation, separation and confinement for the period 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2022 (inclusive).  15/06/2023 Yes Available electronically on website (PDF, 331.1 KB)
51 GIPA23/▮▮▮▮ Information about tenant relocations from Airds-Bradbury, Claymore, and Ivanhoe 27/06/2023 Yes Available electronically on website (PDF, 899.6 KB)
52 GIPA23/▮▮▮▮ For the period 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022 CSNSW information in relation to the number of periods and time spent by inmates in segregation, protective custody, confinement and separation. 

30/06/2023

Yes Available electronically on website (PDF, 293.2 KB)
53 GIPA22/▮▮▮▮ Access to the following information:
  • Child Protection Package (1986)
  • Child Protection Policy and Procedure Manual (1982)
  • Child Protection Policy and Procedure Manual Appendices (1984)
  • Child Protection Guidelines Part 3 (1986)
  • Operational Procedures for Children’s Services (1987)
  • Operational Procedures for Children’s Services Appendices (1987)
5/07/2023 Yes Available electronically on website (PDF, 36.1 MB)
54 GIPA23/▮▮▮▮ A copy of policies, procedures and guidelines for employees at Cobham Plains Juvenile Justice Centre for the period 2014-2016.  7/07/2023 Yes Available electronically on website (PDF, 6.3 MB)
55 GIPA23/▮▮▮▮

Policies and procedures with respect to the searching of detainees including but not limited to, strip searches and/or cavity searches and/or body searches in New SouthWales and at Worimi Juvenile Justice Centre in New South Wales from 1992 to 1995; and

Policies and procedures with respect to placating non-compliant and violent juvenile inmates in practice in New South Wales at Worimi Juvenile Justice Centre in New South Wales from 1992 to 1995.

19/07/2023

Yes Available electronically on website (PDF, 4.2 MB)
56 GIPA22/▮▮▮▮ Policies and procedures in place with respect to the provision of discipline and segregation of children; reporting of physical abuse; recruitment and supervision of Officers.   20/07/2023 Yes (PDF, 9.5 MB) Available electronically on website (PDF, 9.5 MB)
57 GIPA23/▮▮▮▮ Information about public housing household   relocations for Arncliffe and Glebe.  1/09/2023 Yes Available electronically on website (PDF, 808.3 KB)

Contact

For accessible versions of the documents on this page, please contact the Open Government, Information and Privacy Unit by emailing infoandprivacy@dcj.nsw.gov.au

Last updated:

16 Nov 2023