Education and Child Development Department

In reply to Mr PISONI (Unley) (24 July 2015). (Estimates Committee B)

The Hon. S.E. CLOSE (Port Adelaide—Minister for Education and Child Development, Minister for the Public Sector): I have been advised of the following:

The Department for Education and Child Development's FTE cap is a point in time as at 30 June each year.

However, I can advise that as at 30 June 2015, there were 14,310.7 FTEs employed under the Education Act 1972 and 4,520.3 FTE's employed as School Services Officers giving a total of 18,831 FTEs.

While Public Sector Act 2009 employees are not appointed to positions that are based in government schools, public sector employees do provide services and work in and across schools, for example Apprenticeship Brokers and Integrated Support Services employees such as psychologists, social workers and speech pathologists.

Standard practice is for preschool employees to be appointed under the Children's Services Act 1985.