This chapter focuses on performance information for government-funded school education in Australia.

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

This chapter reports performance information for vocational education and training (VET) services.

The focus of performance reporting in this chapter is on ambulance service organisations, which are the primary agencies involved in providing emergency medical care, pre-hospital and out-of-hospital care, and transport services.

This chapter reports on the performance of governments managing of mental health and mental illnesses.

This chapter reports on the performance of primary and community health services which include general practice, pharmaceutical services, dentistry, allied health services, community health services, maternal and child health and alcohol and other drug treatment.

This chapter reports on the performance of governments in providing public hospitals, with a focus on acute care services.

The focus of this chapter is the court administration functions of Australian and State and Territory courts. Data are reported for the Federal Court, the Family Court of Australia and the Federal Circuit Court, the criminal and civil jurisdictions of the supreme courts, district/county courts...

The focus of performance reporting in this chapter is on emergency services for fire events. Descriptive information is included on emergency services for other events, with performance reporting to be developed for future Reports.

The focus of performance reporting in this chapter is on police services, covering the operations of the police agencies of each State and Territory government, including the ACT community policing function performed by the Australian Federal Police.

This chapter reports on prison custody and a range of community corrections orders and programs for adult offenders which are delivered separately by the eight states and territories.

This chapter reports on the Australian, State and Territory governments’ assistance provided to people with disability and their carers.

This chapter reports on the performance of governments in providing youth justice services.

This chapter focuses on specialist homelessness services funded by government under the Council of Australian Governments National Affordable Housing Agreement and National Partnership Agreement on Homelessness. Other non-specialist homelessness services are not included in this Report.

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.

This chapter focuses on performance information for government-funded school education in Australia.