Report on Government Services

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The content below was current as at the time of preparing the 2013 report, released on 31 January 2013.

For the most up to date information and interactive charts visit the latest RoGS report.

This report was released on 31 January 2013. It has been produced by the Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision (SCRGSP). The report has been published in two volumes.

Also released with the report are attachment tables and data quality information (DQI). These are not part of the printed report but are available on this web page.

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Preliminaries

Preliminaries (PDF - 315 Kb)
Cover, Copyright, Foreword, Contents, Steering Committee, Acronyms and abbreviations, Glossay and Terms of Reference

Part A (Introduction)

Part B (Child care, Education and Training)

Child care, education and training sector overview

Chapter 3 Early childhood education and care

Chapter 4 School education

Chapter 5 Vocational education and training

Part C (Justice)

Justice sector summary

Chapter 6 Police services

Chapter 7 Courts

Chapter 8 Corrective services

Part D (Emergency Management)

Emergency management sector overview

Chapter 9 Fire and ambulance services

Appendix A Statistical appendix

Part E (Health)

Health sector overview

Chapter 10 Public hospitals

Chapter 11 Primary and community health

Chapter 12 Mental health management

Part F (Community services)

Chapter 13 Aged care services

Chapter 14 Services for people with disability

Chapter 15 Child protection and youth justice services

Part G (Housing and Homelessness)

Housing and homelessness services sector overview

Chapter 16 Housing

Chapter 17 Homelessness services

Errata

The following errata have been issued for the Report on Government Services 2013. The applicable chapters have been amended on the website to reflect these errata.

Chapter 3 - Early childhood education and care

Some data for Victorian Government expenditure on child care and preschool for 2011-12 in tables 3A.3, 3A.5 and 3A.51 have been corrected. Consequently, national totals in tables 3A.3 and 3A.5 and text describing the proportion of expenditure on preschool services (page 3.8) has been amended.

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Chapter 9 - Fire and ambulance services

Footnote e to figure 9.17 Property loss from structure fire per person (2011-12 dollars) on page 9A.36 and footnote b to table 9.4 on page 9.42 were incorrectly reported for Queensland.

The text in box 9.33 Level of patient satisfaction on page 9.68 incorrectly reported the status of data quality information.

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Sector overview E - Health

The category labels for the age standardised Indigenous mortality rate (table E.2) are incorrect in the printed publication have been revised. The categories affected are Kidney diseases, Conditions originating in perinatal period, Infectious and parasitic diseases, and Nervous system diseases.

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Sector overview E - Health, Chapter 10 - Public hospitals

Emergency department waiting times by urgency category for 2011-12 have been changed.

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Chapter 11 - Primary and community health

Data for Australian Government real expenditure per person on GPs (2011-12 dollars) were incorrectly reported in figure 11.36 and in attachment table 11A.2 for the years 2006-07 to 2009-10.

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Chapter 13 - Aged care

Figure 13.14 HACC recipients per 1000 aged care target population, 30 June 2012 data were incorrectly labelled in the legend.

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Chapter 14 - Services for people with disability

Figure 14.28 Government contribution per employment service user assisted (2010-11 dollars) data was incorrectly reported.

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Chapter 15 - Child protection and youth justice services

Historical data for Victoria were revised in figures 15.16 and 15.17 on pages 15.54 and 15.55.

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Chapter 17 - Homelessness services

The following data for 2011-12 have changed:

proportion of Indigenous people represented in specialist homelessness services
proportion of Indigenous clients experiencing homelessness who had repeat periods of homelessness.