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Data governance

How Child Care Demand handles public market evidence

The source hierarchy, verification rules, limitations and correction path behind our childcare supply and demand pages.

Short answer

We prefer official government and regulator records, preserve the source link and date, separate verified facts from interpretations, and publish a limitation when a source cannot support a complete claim.

National evidence stack
Answer-ready page

Review area

Australian market

Site
LDC
Growth
DA
Site
Supply
Pipeline

Child Care Demand

Australian supply-demand context, made local

National datasets become useful only when they resolve into address-level catchments and source notes.

Supply

National

approved-service register

Demand

SA2+

ABS and CCS context

Pipeline

State-led

coverage shown clearly

Centre register

official supply base

Drive-time catchments

5, 10, 15 minutes

Planning sources

coverage-labelled

Source hierarchy

Use the strongest available public evidence

  1. 1

    Official registers and releases

    Regulator service records, ABS population data and government planning systems are the primary sources.

  2. 2

    Official council records

    Council registers, decision notices and application documents add local development detail where the public record supports it.

  3. 3

    Reconciled supporting evidence

    A secondary public source can resolve a missing address or place count only when the match is explicit and reviewable.

  4. 4

    No unsupported estimate

    If public evidence does not establish a figure, the record stays unknown, blocked or outside the reviewed total. We do not turn a gap into a zero.

Snapshot and update practice

Public pages show a reviewed date and the data years used. Material source changes are verified before a page, download and structured-data claim are updated together.

Interpretation rules

Supply counts, child population, published fees and reviewed pipeline are kept as separate measures. A children-per-place ratio is a benchmark, not occupancy or proof of unmet demand.

Coverage limits

Planning coverage differs by jurisdiction and council. Saved pipeline totals are not presented as complete when discovery also runs live or a public register exposes only a limited window.

Corrections

Send the page or report link, the disputed field, the source you believe is authoritative and the date you checked it to support@childcaredemand.com.

Luke Girgis owns the review. We check the source, correct the public page and matching machine-readable claim where needed, and record a material dataset change below. A correction does not rewrite the source record; it changes how Child Care Demand represents it.

Dataset change log

Material public evidence releases

DateReleaseWhat changed
20 August 2026Quarterly index baselineAdded one comparable NSW, Queensland, Victoria, Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne supply, demand, fee and reviewed-pipeline snapshot.
19 August 2026State and capital-city evidencePublished distinct source-linked state pages and ABS Greater Capital City Statistical Area pages with matching Dataset structured data.
14 August 2026NSW public preschool directoryPublished the reconciled current and expansion-site directory from NSW Education and School Infrastructure sources.

Source basis

Built from public, source-linked evidence.

Evidence ledger

What a user can trace before trusting the answer

Approved services

ACECQA register

National base

Demand model

ABS and CCS inputs

Weighted locally

Catchment

Drive-time geometry

Address-specific

Pipeline

Planning sources

Coverage labelled

Child Care Demand pages use the same evidence model as the product: official service search data, Australian population inputs, public planning sources where coverage is live, and clear limitations when a source is incomplete or still being enriched.

Evidence and source links reviewed .

StartingBlocks.gov.au child care service searchAustralian Bureau of Statistics regional populationProductivity Commission early childhood education and care dataNSW Planning Portal property and planning searchNSW Department of Education current public preschool listNSW Department of Education 100 new public preschool locationsSchool Infrastructure NSW public preschool enrolment statusChild Care Demand coverage notesChild Care Demand methodology