Number of children enrolled Yearly November End of August (August census) and attending in the calendar year Number of funded places Yearly June End of April (Confirmed (Calendar year for funding Kindergarten Data Collection) purposes. Financial year for Budget Paper No.3 and enrolment based funding) Statewide participation rate Yearly October End of August (August census) Progress towards As specified in NP As specified in NP End of August (August census) Performance Indicators in the National Partnership Agreement on Childhood Education Note: The current NP expires Dec 2015. At the time of publishing a further NP agreement has not been formalised. Counting Rules Purpose Definition of Counting Rules Example Data Source terms Number of government-funded locations in a Kindergarten Cluster Management arrangement This performance the total number of N/A Organisations measure provides locations kindergarten locations complete annual data information on the are those approved to be part of collection form and total number of services offering kindergarten cluster return to region, service locations a funded management arrangements enters it into the operating under a kindergarten provided by an approved Kindergarten government-funded program provider. Information kindergarten cluster managed by an Management system. management approved arrangement. kindergarten cluster manager and for which approval has been received. Number of children enrolled and attending in the calendar year This measure The number Sum of actual number of Count number of Funded service provides information reported is a eligible children enrolled children enrolled providers complete about the number of snapshot of data and attending at each and attending in the online Census children enrolled and collected during service location (1st and 2nd kindergarten at Data Collection in attending the Census Data year enrolments) during the the service August via the kindergarten in the Collection in nominated census week. location. Kindergarten calendar year. August. Information A child is considered to be Management (KIM) attending a preschool system. Region program if the child is verifies data where present for at least one hour anomalies or during the nominated inconsistencies in the census week. data arise. Once all data has been
Number of children enrolled and attending in the calendar year Yearly November End of August (August census) Number of funded places (Calendar year for funding purposes. Financial year for Budget Paper No.3 and enrolment based funding) Yearly June End of April (Confirmed Kindergarten Data Collection) Statewide participation rate Yearly October End of August (August census) Progress towards Performance Indicators in the National Partnership Agreement on Childhood Education Note: The current NP expires Dec 2015. At the time of publishing a further NP agreement has not been formalised. As specified in NP As specified in NP End of August (August census) Counting Rules Purpose Definition of terms Counting Rules Example Data Source Number of government-funded locations in a Kindergarten Cluster Management arrangement This performance measure provides information on the total number of service locations operating under a government-funded kindergarten cluster management arrangement. locations are those services offering a funded kindergarten program managed by an approved kindergarten cluster manager and for which approval has been received. the total number of kindergarten locations approved to be part of kindergarten cluster management arrangements provided by an approved provider. N/A Organisations complete annual data collection form and return to region, enters it into the Kindergarten Information Management system. Number of children enrolled and attending in the calendar year This measure provides information about the number of children enrolled and attending kindergarten in the calendar year. The number reported is a snapshot of data collected during the Census Data Collection in August. Sum of actual number of eligible children enrolled and attending at each service location (1st and 2nd year enrolments) during the nominated census week. A child is considered to be attending a preschool program if the child is present for at least one hour during the nominated census week. Count number of children enrolled and attending in kindergarten at the service location. Funded service providers complete the online Census Data Collection in August via the Kindergarten Information Management (KIM) system. Region verifies data where anomalies or inconsistencies in the data arise. Once all data has been
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