The Public Sector (Data Sharing) Act 2016 requires the Office for Data Analytics (ODA) to report the nature and scope of data sharing across government.
Below is a brief summary of data sharing agreements for 2019-20.
Contact ODA for details of data sharing agreements from 2018 and 2017.
2019-20 Data Sharing Agreements
Data recipient | Wellbeing SA |
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Data provider | Department for Health and Wellbeing |
Date signed | January 2020 |
Contains personal data | - |
Data description | Pregnancy characteristics and outcomes |
Public interest/purpose | Data shared through this initiative will enable the POU to manage the Registry in an ongoing way in line with practice since 1970. |
Data recipient | Wellbeing SA |
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Data provider | SA Electoral Commission |
Date signed | January 2020 |
Contains personal data | - |
Data description | Population based data |
Public interest/purpose | Data shared through this initiative will ensure an ongoing high quality population based registry system and high quality data linkage projects. |
Data recipient | Department of Primary Industries & Regions, SA Water, SA SES, Department of Human Services, Attorney General's Department, Department for Trade, Tourism and Investment, Department for Education, Environment Protection Authority, SA Health, SAFECOM, Department for Environment and Water, Department of the Premier and Cabinet, LocationSA, Country Fire Service, South Australian Housing Authority, Department for Energy and Mining |
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Data provider | Department of Primary Industries & Regions, SA Water, SA SES, Department of Human Services, Attorney General's Department, Department for Trade, Tourism and Investment, Department for Education, Environment Protection Authority, SA Health, SAFECOM, Department for Environment and Water, Department of the Premier and Cabinet, LocationSA, Country Fire Service, South Australian Housing Authority, Department for Energy and Mining |
Date signed | Multiple dates (FY 2019-2020) |
Contains personal data | - |
Data description | Location based data sets |
Public interest/purpose | Reduce costs through sharing of infrastructure and expertise. |
Data recipient | Return to Work SA, Revenue SA, Department of the Premier and Cabinet, Department of Treasury and Finance, Department for Innovation and Skills, Department of Trade and Investment, Primary Industries and Regions SA, Department of Energy and Mining, Green Industries SA, Defence SA |
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Data provider | Return to Work SA, Revenue SA, Department of the Premier and Cabinet, Department of the Treasury and Finance, Department of Innovation and Skills, Department of Trade and Investment, Primary Industries and Regions SA, Department of Energy and Mining, Green Industries SA, Defence SA |
Date signed | January 2020 |
Contains personal data | - |
Data description | Multi-agency data sharing agreement for SA business-based data. |
Public interest/purpose | Insights from analysis performance using the shared data set could enable better use of taxpayer funds. |
| Data recipient | Department for Education |
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| Data provider | SA Dental Service |
| Date signed | October 2019 |
| Contains personal data | - |
| Data description | Client records and student records |
| Public interest/purpose | Increase access to and utilisation of SA Dental Service by DFE school students. |
| Data recipient | Department of the Premier and Cabinet, |
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| Data provider | SAHMRI |
| Date signed | September 2019 |
| Contains personal data | - |
| Data description | Data relating to wellbeing |
| Public interest/purpose | Development of government policy activities centred around wellbeing and resilience. |
| Data recipient | Department of the Premier and Cabinet, Department for Child Protection, Department for Education, Department of Human Services – Youth Justice, Department of Human Services – Early Intervention Research Directorate, SA Housing Authority, Department for Health and Wellbeing |
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| Data provider | Department for Child Protection, Department for Education, Department of Human Services – Youth Justice, Department of Human Services – Screening Unit, Attorney General’s Department, SA Housing Authority, Department for Health and Wellbeing, Department for Correctional Services |
| Date signed | April 2019 |
| Contains personal data | - |
| Data description | Multi-agency data sharing agreement for the Vulnerable Children Project (VCP) |
| Public interest/purpose | VCP aims to enable South Australian Government agencies involved in child protection to achieve: 1. Enhance the use of data related to child protection services, programs and policies; 2. Securely access integrated data from multiple agencies to better inform selected, vetted and audited staff about vulnerable children and their environments; 3. Inform decision making at the strategic and operational levels. |
| Data recipient | Department of the Premier and Cabinet (Office for Data Analytics) |
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| Data provider | South Australia Police |
| Date signed | May 2019 |
| Contains personal data | - |
| Data description | SAPOL data for Vulnerable Children Project (VCP) |
| Public interest/purpose | VCP aims to enable South Australian Government agencies involved in child protection to achieve: 1. Enhance the use of data related to child protection services, programs and policies; 2. Securely access integrated data from multiple agencies to better inform selected, vetted and audited staff about vulnerable children and their environments; 3. Inform decision making at the strategic and operational levels. |
| Data recipient | Attorney General’s Department |
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| Data provider | South Australia Police |
| Date signed | January 2019 |
| Contains personal data | - |
| Data description | Multi-agency whole-of-justice data |
| Public interest/purpose | To provide a holistic picture of whole-of-justice interactions to make better data informed decisions. |
| Data recipient | Department of the Premier and Cabinet |
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| Data provider | Return to Work SA |
| Date signed | January 2019 |
| Contains personal data | - |
| Data description | Information on employers registered in the ReturnToWork scheme |
| Public interest/purpose | Integrating data to identify key trends in South Australian business and labour markets and provide analysis for use in policy development. |
| Data recipient | Department of the Premier and Cabinet |
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| Data provider | Commissioner for Children and Young People |
| Date signed | January 2019 |
| Contains personal data | - |
| Data description | Handwritten workshop responses |
| Public interest/purpose | Optical character recognition and sentiment analysis to save time transcribing handwriting. |