ChildcareScout

Data sources

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

Primary download: ACECQA approved services CSV. Geography fallback: AU postal codes. Always confirm details on the official ACECQA register. Machine-readable overview: llms.txt.