Tusla — Performance and Activity Datasets
Tusla – Child and Family Agency.
2014 (Tusla)
Prior to the establishment of Tusla (2014),
performance and activity data for HSE Children
and Family Services was collected and published by the HSE.
To comply with statutory reporting obligations; measure and monitor performance of the operational system;
improve service delivery and outcomes for children and families engaging with services; inform policy and research and provide information (accountability) to the public.
National / Tusla Regional / Tusla Area level.
Publication of the data in its current format commenced in 2014 when Tusla was established and is ongoing.
Datasets of key performance and activity metrics and indicators defined for Tusla services as follows:
- Child Protection and Welfare Services;
- Alternative Care Services (incl. foster care, residential care, aftercare, adoption);
- Family Support Services;
- Tusla Education Support Services;
- Children’s Services Regulation (Early Years Inspectorate, Alternative Education, Assessment & Registration Service; Alternative Care Inspection & Monitoring Service)
- Human Resources
- Finance
Tusla; Department of Children,
Equality, Disability, Integration & Youth;policy makers;researchers; media; members of the Oireachtas; public.
Datasets comprise a number of activity metrics and indicators (aggregate data) e.g.,
Referrals to services, assessments conducted, children in care and placement types, young people in receipt of aftercare services, approval and assessment of foster carers, waiting-lists (allocation to a social worker), applications for information and tracing (adoption), children referred for adoption; early years services inspected, children on register/assessments for home education, inspections of non-statutory alternative care services, staffing levels, variance from budget.
Data definitions in place for datasets – not published online
Aftercare dataset: data on young people
(18-22 years) in receipt of aftercare services engaged in education/accredited training disaggregated by type of education.
Data recorded on Tusla’s National Child Care Information System (NCCIS) is extracted directly from the system for reporting / publication.
Data not recorded on NCCIS is collected at an area / service level and
submitted by e-mail to the Performance Reporting Function of the Quality & Regulation Directorate for collation, analysis and publication.
Data is collated on a monthly / quarterly and annual basis (depending on the dataset).
N/A.
>100,000
records
Monthly, Quarterly,
Annually (depending on dataset).
Published data can be accessed
from http://www.tusla.ie/data-figures
Data access requests from researchers are considered.
A number of datasets are
available via Ireland’s Open Data
https://data.tusla.ie/Home/OpenData