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2025 APS Employee Census Highlight Report – Department of Education
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Documents detailing the Department of Education’s employee engagement results in the 2025 APS Census.
2025 Census Action Plan – Department of Education
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The 2025 APS Census Action Plan for the Department of Education outlines the priority actions to support a positive workplace culture, effective change management and our authorising environment.
New spot checks and transparency updates boost child safety in early learning
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Families can now access more safety information and spot checks have commenced to strengthen standards in early childhood education and care.
Tropical Cyclone Fina: CCS period of emergency declared
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We’ve declared a Child Care Subsidy (CCS) period of emergency in parts of the Northern Territory due to the impact of Tropical Cyclone Fina.
Einstein College of Australia
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Shiv Sans Pty Ltd [03223E], trading as Einstein College of Australia, was placed into liquidation and ceased operating on Wednesday 26 November 2025. Worrells has been appointed as the liquidator.
Data Strategy 2026-2028
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The Department of Education’s Data Strategy guides how we strengthen our ability to develop and deliver effective policies and programs, underpinned by high-quality, accessible, and secure data.
Building Early Education Fund – small scale market sounding webinar
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Presentation slides from the small scale market sounding webinar on 20 November 2025.
The First Five Years project
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The First Five Years was developed as a flagship project under the Data Integration Partnership for Australia (DIPA) as a collaborative endeavour involving project partners from across government and the university sector.
The First Five Years project publication
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The First Five Years was developed as a flagship project under the Data Integration Partnership for Australia (DIPA) as a collaborative endeavour involving project partners from across government and the university sector.
The First Five Years project - Child and family characteristics
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In this section we show how socio-economic factors such as parental educational attainment, household income and neighbourhood SES were associated with child development vulnerability.
The First Five Years project – Predictive modelling
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In this section, the risk and preventative factors that had a significant association with early child development are identified.
The First Five Years project – ECEC attendance
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Associations between early education attendance and child development
The First Five Years project – ECEC Quality
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In this section we describe the associations between child care quality and rates of being developmentally on track for different subgroups of the population.
The First Five Years project – Effects of child care
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Estimating the effect of child care on children’s developmental outcomes
The First Five Years project - Conclusions
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In this section, we summarise the key results of the project, discuss the limitations and future directions.
The First Five Years project - Methodology
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This section contains detailed information about datasets, key analytical decisions, constructed factors and statistical techniques used within the project.
The First Five Years project - Appendix
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This section discusses charged and attended child care hours, linkage bias, sample size for the inference computation results, and the rules used for calculating income.
The First Five Years project – Duration of child care attendance
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In this section we describe the associations between child care duration and rates of being developmentally on track for different subgroups of the population.