The Education Department will use population planning to drive the allocation of resources. Source: adelaidenow
HEALTH, academic and behaviour data will be mapped on a population plan for the state that will help determine where money is spent on education and child services.
It is one of 15 "signature projects" under the Education Department's transformation into a larger agency controlling schools, early learning, families and child protection.
Chief executive Keith Bartley will announce the large-scale structural changes today.
They have been in the making since October 2011, when the super department of Education and Child Development was created.
Mr Bartley said feedback from 22 community forums suggested that population planning was needed to drive the allocation of services.
"What they were saying to us is that instead of sitting in this building (Flinders St head office) and saying `we're going to distribute the resources in this way', we need to start with the sum of the needs and then deploy resources to that," he said.
Existing measures and reporting systems to be used include the Australian Early Development Index of five-year-olds, national literacy and numeracy tests, health outcomes and critical incidents in schools.
The plan is intended to provide a suburb-by-suburb picture of the development of a small community to enable programs and services to be moved and strengthened as needed.
The restructure will be in place next year.
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