This chapter focuses on government funded care and support services for older people and their carers, which are provided at home, in the community and in residential care facilities.

This chapter reports on the performance of governments in providing child protection, out-of-home care, family support services and intensive family support services.

This chapter presents data on the performance of governments in providing social housing, including public housing (PH), State owned and managed Indigenous housing (SOMIH), community housing (CH) and Indigenous community housing (ICH).

Key facts: The Australian, State and Territory governments’ recurrent expenditure (including user cost of capital) on VET totalled $5.8 billion in 2016 – a real decrease of 6.7 per cent from 2015. Nationally in 2016:

This chapter reports on the performance of early childhood education and care (ECEC) services, which comprise child care and preschool services.