This report evaluates Victoria's Free TAFE initiative introduced in 2019. It finds that while the program successfully boosted training participation in priority skill areas and provided substantial tuition fee savings to students, it resulted in higher per-enrolment government costs and failed to significantly shift the overall proportion of priority student cohorts.

The evidence‑informed practice compass is a practical decision‑making framework that helps child and family service organisations embed evidence‑informed approaches into their everyday work. It sets out the core domains that underpin high‑quality practice and supports teams to reflect on what they currently do and identify where improvements are needed.

A guide for service providers that supports child and family service organisations to understand whether their programs and services are working, for whom and why – and how they can be strengthened over time. It aims to help practitioners and organisations build knowledge and skills to understand and apply monitoring, evaluation and learning processes in...

The report provides a picture of how evaluation is used across the Australian Public Service. It looks at how well evaluations are planned, carried out and used, and how evaluation culture is developing across government. It reflects findings on evaluation types; use of evaluation evidence; capability building efforts; and culturally appropriate and ethical evaluation.

Gender pay gaps are a critical manifestation of gender inequalities in the labour market, reflecting a range of differential outcomes and factors facing men and women today. Gender pay gaps also help to predict gender inequalities tomorrow. This technical paper provides key recommendations for pay gap reporting for public administrations.