We issue public reports about early childhood education and care in Australia.
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Have your say in the 2026 early childhood education and care (ECEC) staff survey!
If you work in ECEC, we'd like to hear about your experience in the sector. Your feedback will help improve understanding of the workforce and inform future policies and initiatives that support it. The survey is anonymous, confidential and takes less than 10 minutes to complete. The survey closes 10am AEDT 14 December 2026.
Quarterly reports
We issue a summary of information about the child care sector in Australia each quarter.
Australian Early Development Census
The Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) measures how children have developed by the time they start school.
Learn more about the Australian Early Development Census
National Workforce Census
The National Workforce Census helps us develop and measure policies and programs for the early childhood sector.
Learn more about the National Workforce Census
Measuring vulnerability and disadvantage in early childhood data collections
These reports identify options for child-centred indicators of disadvantage. They seek to understand the associations between child and area-level measures of disadvantage.
National Education and Care Services Ombudsman, Freedom of information and Privacy Commissioners’ Annual Report
The Education and Care Services (ECS) Commissioners deal with complaints about the bodies responsible for implementing Australia’s early childhood education and care regulatory system.
They submit an annual report each year to Education Ministers to table in their respective Parliaments.