Table of contents
- Preliminary material
- Title and verso pages
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and acronyms
- Preface
- Executive summary
- Consultations with the states and territories
- Data mapping exercise
- Consultation with Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
- Conclusion and the way forward
- Key findings
- Face-to-face consultation with the state and territories
- Data mapping
- Degree of alignment to the CSNMDS
- Non-financial data in the Report on Government Services
- Consultation with the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
- The way forward
- Executive summary
- Body section
- Introduction
- Background
- Development of the Children's Services National Minimum Data Set
- Implementation of the CSNMDS
- Report structure
- Report on state and territory consultation prepared by Shina Consulting
- The project's objectives
- Overview of the consultation meetings
- Provision of data manuals and documentation about data collections
- Feasibility of integration of CSNMDS
- Integration of departmental data systems
- Policy planning and program delivery needs
- Inefficiencies and duplication within systems
- Other barriers to CSNMDS implementation
- Conclusion
- Consultations
- CSNMDS implementation project
- New South Wales
- Victoria
- Queensland
- Western Australia
- South Australia
- Tasmania
- Australian Capital Territory
- Northern Territory
- The data mapping exercise
- Data sources
- Data sources that are largely common across jurisdictions
- Where the jurisdictions differ
- Alignment of state and territory collections to the CSNMDS
- Non-financial data in the Report on Government Services
- The National Preschool Census (previously known as the National Indigenous Preschool Census)
- New South Wales
- Overview
- Key features of New South Wales's children's services data collections
- Data coverage
- Conceptual, question wording and/or scope differences
- Victoria
- Overview
- Key features of Victoria's children's services data collection
- Data coverage
- Conceptual, question wording and/or scope differences
- Queensland
- Overview
- Key features of the Queensland children's services census
- Data coverage
- Conceptual, question wording and/or scope differences
- Additional information provided by DoC
- Western Australia
- Overview
- Key features of Western Australia's children's services data collections
- South Australia
- Overview
- Key features of South Australia's children's services data collections
- Data coverage
- Conceptual, question wording and/or scope differences
- Preschool enrolment form
- Tasmania
- Overview
- Key features of Tasmania's children's services data collections
- Data coverage
- Conceptual, question wording and/ or scope differences
- Kindergarten enrolment form
- Australian Capital Territory
- Overview
- Key features of ACT's children's services data collections
- Northern Territory
- Overview
- Key features of the Northern Territory's children's services data collections
- Data coverage
- Conceptual, question wording and/ or scope differences
- Report on Government Services (ROGS)
- Summary
- Key features of the ROGS children's services non-financial data collection
- Data coverage
- The National Preschool Census (formerly known as the National Indigenous Preschool Census)
- Data coverage
- Alignment to the CSNMDS
- Data sources
- Consultation with Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
- Overview
- Meetings with Australian Government departments
- What is the Child Care Management System?
- Incorporation of the CSNMDS data items into the Australian Government's child care data collections
- Data reporting capability of the CCMS
- Longer term direction of the CCMS
- Conclusion and the way forward
- AIHW's suggestions on the path forward
- Introduction
- End matter
- Appendixes
- Appendix 1: Sectors and nomenclature
- Appendix 2: Roles and responsibilities in children's services
- Appendix 3: Key stages in the development of the CSNMDS
- References
- Appendixes