APPENDIX SERVICE PROVIDER COVERAGE


SERVICE PROVIDER COVERAGE

Table A1 presents the number of service providers from which data was collected in the 2010 National Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) Collection. It can be seen from this table that complete coverage of the Early Childhood Education sector has not be achieved in 2010.

A1 NUMBER OF PRESCHOOL PROVIDERS, Sector, State and Territories (Census response count)
			NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.	NT	ACT
PRESCHOOL
	Government		100	221	28	402	624	162	118	83
	Non-Government
		Community	720	893	316	21	-	-	-	nya
		Private for profit	-	10	np	-	-	-	-	nya
		Independent School	-	84	17	-	246	60	10	nya
		Others	-	-	np	-	-	-	-	nya
		Total Non-Government	720	987	339	21	246	60	10	nya
Total Preschools			820	1 208	367	423	870	222	128	83
LONG DAY CARE(a)
	Long day care with a preschool program		nya	(b)547	427	(b)19	nya	nya	nya	nya
Total Preschool Providers			nya	1 755	794	442	nya	nya	nya	nya
- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)
np not available for publication but included in totals where applicable, unless otherwise indicated
nya not yet available
(a) An early childhood qualified teacher criteria was applied to long day care preschool.
(b) In the 2010 collection, Victoria and South Australia was not able to collect details on the teacher's qualifications in long day care centres.

Developments are currently underway to increase the coverage for future collection cycles. Enhancements to the Commonwealth's Child Care Management System (CCMS) should enable supply of statistics for preschool programs in Long Day Care (LDC) centres. Although some data was able to be collected from LDCs in some jurisdictions, data from the CCMS will supplement the data already collected in those jurisdictions and be the main source of data for LDCs for other jurisdictions. Work is also underway to collect statistics from non-goverment schools providing preschool programs and will be available in future releases of this publication.