Specialist Homelessness Services Client Record

Specialist Homelessness Services (SHS) client records and SHS collection extracts for named or linkable clients: homelessness status, reasons for seeking assistance, services provided and the statistical linkage key (SLK-581) built from name, date of birth and sex.

Type: regex
Engine: boost_regex
Confidence: medium
Confidence justification: Medium: primary anchors are distinctive form titles and statutory terms, but they also appear in guidance, blank forms and statistics, so enforce tiers require populated record structure. 85/75 are heuristic evidence tiers, not measured accuracy; test values are synthetic records laid out like the published forms.
Jurisdictions: au
Regulations: Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld)
Frameworks: QGISCF
Data categories: pii, government
Scope: narrow
Risk rating: 8
Platform compatibility: Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Compatible, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported

Pattern

(?i)\b(?:Specialist\s+Homelessness\s+Services?(?:\s+Collection)?|SHS\s+(?:support\s+period|client|intake)|SHSC|statistical\s+linkage\s+key|SLK[\s-]?581)\b

Corroborative evidence keywords

homeless, rough sleeping, couch surfing, crisis accommodation, at risk, support period, presenting unit, domestic and family violence

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

SHS support period Client: Riley Teston SLK: ESIIL020819892 Date of birth: 02/08/1989 Housing situation at presentation: rough sleeping. Main reason: domestic and family violence. Referred to crisis accommodation. — Populated record 1
Specialist Homelessness Services Collection extract — agency 4471 SLK, Sex, DOB, Reason OTEOR170619902, 2, 17/06/1990, Financial difficulties EAMJA040719881, 1, 04/07/1988, Housing crisis — Narrative record 2 without labelled fields (reaches 65 discovery only, by design)
Client name: Morgan Teston Specialist homelessness service case note: couch surfing for 6 weeks, mental health support provided, applying for social housing. — Populated record 3

Should not match

The Specialist Homelessness Services Collection (SHSC) records information about people who seek assistance from homelessness agencies. Clients are linked using a statistical linkage key. — Guidance or explainer text
SHS client intake Client name: __________ SLK: __________ Housing situation: __________ — Blank form
Specialist homelessness services helped 278,000 clients in 2024-25, according to AIHW. — Aggregate statistics or news

Known false positives

Guidance pages, fact sheets, policy and training text that name the record type. Mitigation: Enforce tiers require populated record fields; guidance uses the labels without values.
Blank forms and form kits. Mitigation: Blank lines, square-bracket and angle-bracket placeholders and n/a/tbc values are rejected.
Aggregate statistics and news reporting. Mitigation: No populated person or reference fields, so these stay at 65 discovery.

References

AIHW — Specialist Homelessness Services Collection