Sections in this page
Loading...
Strategic plan
The Education Standards Board is committed to a proactive and proportionate risk-based approach to support the welfare of children and young people and ensure public confidence in the standards and conduct of providers. Our mission over the next three years is to improve performance against our regulatory functions.
Our vision
All children and young people have access to high-quality education and care in safe, well-governed and well-managed services.
Values
The Education Standards Board will uphold public sector values through its decisions, actions and interactions. In addition, we are committed to our values:
- Honesty and integrity: we are consistent and fair in our actions to encourage openness and transparency.
- Professionalism: we have a culture that strives for excellence and aims to improve productivity.
- Sustainability: we respond to change and proactively improve.
- Collaboration and engagement: we collaborate in our work practices.
- Accountability: we make decisions that comply with legislation, are ethical and consistent with approved policies and procedures.
Strategic priorities
The Board's strategic priorities for 2024-27 support the delivery of the statutory functions under s29 of the Education and Early Childhood Services (Registration and Standards) Act 2011. These include:
1. Engage with the sector to improve understanding of our regulatory role
- Collaboratively engage with regulated parties and stakeholders.
- Regularly and proactively communicate what we are doing and why.
2. Monitor quality and compliance, and target poor performance
- Use our regulatory tools to take risk-based proportionate action in response to non-compliance.
- Better report on performance to encourage voluntary compliance.
3. Enable willing regulated parties to improve compliance and quality
- Develop partnerships that drive improved quality and compliance.
- Provide education in our regulatory priority areas.
4. Build the capability of our people and drive continuous improvement
- Develop our people through ongoing learning and development.
- Implement decision-making tools and work instructions.
Service standards and targets
The Education Standards Board is committed to taking on the feedback of our stakeholders and implementing actions to better perform as a regulatory authority. In alignment with our 2024-27 Strategic Plan and results from the 2024 Sector Survey, we have worked in consultation with large providers to develop service standards and targets for the ESB. Our performance against these standards is published bi-annually through our bulletins.
View Service Standards and Targets
Annual report
The Education Standards Board provides an annual report to the Minister for Education, Training and Skills each year under s279 of the Education and Early Childhood Services (Registration and Standards) Act 2011. This report is tabled in the South Australian Parliament and made available to the public (s280 the Act).
Education Standards Board Annual Report 2023-24
View 2023-24 Annual Report online
Regulatory data
Publishing regulatory data provides transparency around the Education Standards Board's work and encourages voluntary compliance and improved service quality by regulated parties (approved providers, education and care services and educators). Regulatory data is published in our annual report and includes schools and international education.