Department of Education’s regulation of school funding

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Performance audit (potential)

Potential

Potential audit: 2025-26

Portfolio

Education

Entity

Department of Education

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Activity

Regulation

This audit would assess the effectiveness of the Department of Education’s regulation of recurrent school funding under the Australian Education Act 2013 ($30.1 billion in 2024–25).

In 2023–24, via the Strengthening non-government schools funding integrity measure, the Australian Government announced it would ‘strengthen policy and financial assurance and compliance to ensure funding for non-government schools is used appropriately for school education’.