Engagement Increase the number of Victorians actively participating in education, training, development and child health services. Participation in a kindergarten service in the year before school Participation in maternal and health services Proportion of ECEC services meeting or exceeding National Quality Standard Area 6 partnerships with families and communities) Mean number of students absent days per fulltime equivalent (FTE) a year Mean number of unapproved student absence days per FTE per year in secondary schools Students with a positive opinion about their school providing a stimulating learning environment VET enrolments by age and gender VET enrolments by administrative regions VET enrolments by skills shortage category courses VET enrolments by specialised category courses VET participation by learners facing barriers VET participation by unemployed learners Proportion of VET students satisfied with the teaching in their course. Strategy, Review and Regulation Early Childhood Development School Education—Primary School Training, Higher Education, Workforce Development and Skills Support Services Delivery Support for Students with Disabilities. Wellbeing Increase the contribution education, training, development and child health services make to good health and quality of life for all Victorians, particularly children and young people. Proportion of infants fully or partially breastfed at three and six months Proportion of children who have no behavioural issues on entry into Prep Proportion of children who have no general development issues on into Prep Children developmentally ‘on on the AEDC social competence and emotional maturity domains Students feeling connected to their school Students with a positive opinion about their school providing a safe and orderly environment for learning Level of student satisfaction with VET. Strategy, Review and Regulation Early Childhood Development School Education—Primary School Training, Higher Education, Workforce Development and Skills Support Services Delivery Support for Students with Disabilities. Secondary Secondary
Dollar per secondary school student per financial year Victorian Government real recurrent expenditure (including User Cost of Capital) per FTE student in secondary schools (2014–15 dollars) $ per FTE student 15,523.0 15,571.7 16,130.6 n/a n/a Higher education and skills Dollar per VET student contact hour per calendar year Victorian Government real recurrent expenditure per annual hour (2015 dollars) $ per hour 13.21 11.96 9.84 10.76 n/a Performance against output performance measures The Department’s outputs are reported in seven groups. These are: Strategy, Review and Regulation Early Childhood Development School Education–Primary School Education–Secondary Training, Higher Education, Workforce Development and Skills Support Services Development Support for Students with Disabilities. output measures refer to the financial year unless indicated. Strategy, review and regulation The output for Strategy, Review and Regulation develops, plans and monitors strategic policy settings across all stages of learning. It includes intergovernmental negotiations as well as research, data and performance evaluations. This output group supports regulation to ensure delivery of quality education and training and contributes to all the Department’s objectives of achievement, engagement, wellbeing and productivity. 7 – Strategy, review and regulation performance measures Performance measures Unit of measure 2016–17 Target 2016–17 Actual Per cent variation Result Quantity Number of registered training organisation quality audits and school reviews undertaken annually number 67 90 34.3 This performance measure relates to the calendar year. The 2016–17 actual is higher than the target due to unanticipated audits and reviews of potentially high-risk providers. This resulted from potential non-compliance identified by complaints and other intelligence, and increased demand for high-risk thematic areas such as childcare qualifications. Quality Education peak bodies that rate the Victorian Registration and Qualifications Authority (VRQA) effective or highly effective in performing its regulatory function per cent 70 100 42.9