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) |
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| | | NSW | Vic. | Qld | SA | WA | Tas. | NT | ACT |
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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 |
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- 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.