ChildcareScout stores raw source records separately from normalised pages. Every service keeps source agency, dataset, URL, record id, licence and fetch time.
National Registers of approved education and care services and providers
Australian Children's Education and Care Quality Authority
Daily CSV exports from the National Quality Agenda IT System.
Status: Ingested in MVP
Source URL
Copyright ACECQA. Reuse subject to ACECQA terms of use.
Quarterly NQS data workbook
Australian Children's Education and Care Quality Authority
Optional enrichment for street-level coordinates when the workbook is present.
Status: Ingested in MVP
Source URL
Copyright ACECQA. Reuse subject to ACECQA terms of use.
AU postal codes
GeoNames
Suburb and postcode centroids used when ACECQA does not publish coordinates.
Status: Ingested in MVP
Source URL
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
ASGS Edition 3 Suburbs and Localities (SAL) and Postal Areas (POA)
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Adapter ready. Ingest polygons when supply-per-population analysis is enabled.
Status: Adapter prepared, not calculated yet
Source URL
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Census population by SAL / SA2
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Do not calculate childcare shortage until places and population are both present.
Status: Adapter prepared, not calculated yet
Source URL
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International