The 2022–23 Victorian State Budget Paper 3 sets out the department’s output groups and their budgeted costs. For the 2022–23 financial year, the department’s output budget totals $16.5 billion. In addition to this, the 2022–23 State Budget announced $1.65 billion in asset initiatives over the next 4 years. This is shown in the tables below, including the current and future funding for the department’s new output initiatives until 2025–26.
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The department’s output funding |
2022-23 ($m) |
|
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Strategy, Review and Regulation |
110.9 |
|
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Early Childhood Education |
984.9 |
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School Education – Primary |
5,942.9 |
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School Education – Secondary |
5,026.9 |
|
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Training, Higher Education and Workforce Development |
2,482.7 |
|
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Support Services Delivery |
440.4 |
|
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Support for Students with Disabilities |
1,522.3 |
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Total |
16,510.9 |
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The department’s 2022–23 output initiatives |
2022–23 ($m) |
2023–24 ($m) |
2024–25 ($m) |
2025–26 ($m) |
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Early Childhood Education |
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Building inclusive kindergartens |
2.9 |
5.8 |
3.2 |
- |
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Continuing early intervention for vulnerable children |
4.5 |
5.3 |
5.2 |
3.6 |
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Continuing the early childhood language program |
2.7 |
2.8 |
- |
- |
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Delivering 15 hours of four-year-old kindergarten |
8.4 |
15.2 |
16.7 |
10.6 |
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Expanding the Kindergarten Fee Subsidy |
0.3 |
0.6 |
0.6 |
0.6 |
|
Improving outcomes for children with disability |
4.0 |
4.2 |
4.3 |
4.4 |
|
Improving outcomes for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) children |
1.0 |
2.0 |
1.0 |
- |
|
Kinder Kits for three‑year‑old kinder |
7.1 |
7.6 |
- |
- |
|
Maintaining universal access to four‑year‑old kindergarten |
10.6 |
21.6 |
21.8 |
22.0 |
|
Strengthening Victoria’s interface with the National Disability Insurance Scheme |
2.3 |
2.9 |
- |
- |
|
School Education |
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Active Schools |
11.2 |
9.6 |
- |
- |
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Building equity and excellence for rural and regional students |
5.2 |
5.7 |
8.7 |
9.1 |
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Connected Learners – cyber safe and secure learners |
3.7 |
- |
- |
- |
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Continuation of the Student Excellence Program |
10.5 |
15.1 |
7.5 |
3.9 |
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Digital education – Critical IT supporting every student |
25.2 |
25.7 |
26.2 |
26.7 |
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Engaging students in learning – The Geelong Project, Northern Centre for Excellence in School Engagement and Project REAL |
0.6 |
2.3 |
1.5 |
- |
|
English as an Additional Language |
11.6 |
11.9 |
- |
- |
|
Enhanced Navigator Program |
6.7 |
11.1 |
11.4 |
7.7 |
|
Essential maintenance and compliance |
19.0 |
32.8 |
32.8 |
32.8 |
|
Excellence in vocational and applied learning |
18.5 |
33.1 |
23.3 |
13.0 |
|
Extension of the Primary Mathematics and Science Specialists initiative |
4.6 |
8.3 |
4.3 |
- |
|
Head Start apprenticeships and traineeships for all Victorian government school students |
10.9 |
18.7 |
19.4 |
20.3 |
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Improved vocational and applied learning pathways |
15.8 |
12.4 |
4.5 |
1.3 |
|
Improving teaching quality |
69.5 |
194.6 |
254.5 |
259.6 |
|
Lifting student literacy and numeracy outcomes |
27.1 |
36.6 |
33.0 |
34.4 |
|
New schools construction |
- |
15.1 |
19.4 |
19.8 |
|
Next Generation Victorian Curriculum F-10 |
1.4 |
0.8 |
0.5 |
- |
|
Out‑of‑field teaching |
1.8 |
3.2 |
3.6 |
1.5 |
|
Relocatable Buildings Program |
8.1 |
2.9 |
3.0 |
3.0 |
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Respectful and safe school communities |
4.8 |
4.2 |
1.9 |
1.5 |
|
School enrolment‑based funding |
30.1 |
31.3 |
32.6 |
33.9 |
|
School upgrades: growth for 2025 |
- |
- |
0.9 |
1.8 |
|
Software for connected learners |
3.6 |
8.5 |
9.7 |
9.7 |
|
Student health and wellbeing – school nursing and student support services |
9.0 |
0.8 |
0.8 |
0.8 |
|
Sustaining student mental health services for schools |
9.0 |
12.5 |
9.9 |
10.0 |
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Targeted initiatives to attract more teachers |
21.9 |
14.8 |
15.1 |
7.1 |
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Targeted investment to improve educational outcomes in youth justice |
5.6 |
9.3 |
9.4 |
6.0 |
|
Universal access to high‑quality VET for government school students |
9.8 |
24.2 |
27.3 |
24.8 |
|
Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) delivery on the Northern Hemisphere timetable |
1.4 |
1.5 |
- |
- |
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Support for Students with Disabilities |
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Students with disabilities transport program |
30.7 |
- |
- |
- |
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Training, Higher Education and Workforce Development |
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A coordinated and efficient TAFE system |
39.5 |
25.9 |
2.1 |
- |
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Adding Auslan courses to the Free TAFE course list |
1.0 |
1.0 |
1.0 |
1.0 |
|
Apprenticeship Support Officers |
5.9 |
6.1 |
- |
- |
|
Skills Solutions Partnerships |
0.2 |
0.2 |
- |
- |
|
TAFE inclusion |
0.4 |
0.4 |
- |
- |
|
Total output initiatives |
468.0 |
648.4 |
617.2 |
571.2 |
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The department’s asset initiatives |
2022–23 ($m) |
2023–24 ($m) |
2024–25 ($m) |
2025–26 ($m) |
TEI ($m) |
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Early Childhood Education |
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Delivering 15 hours of four-year-old kindergarten |
4.3 |
- |
- |
- |
4.3 |
|
School Education |
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Essential maintenance and compliance |
2.4 |
84.9 |
31.2 |
1.5 |
120.0 |
|
Land acquisition for new schools |
99.7 |
118.0 |
19.0 |
- |
236.7 |
|
Minor Capital Works Fund |
12.5 |
27.2 |
2.1 |
- |
41.8 |
|
New schools construction |
247.9 |
249.8 |
28.0 |
1.4 |
527.2 |
|
Relocatable Buildings Program |
92.2 |
- |
- |
- |
92.2 |
|
School upgrades |
8.0 |
99.5 |
119.6 |
6.6 |
234.0 |
|
School upgrades: growth for 2025 |
2.0 |
17.4 |
34.6 |
2.1 |
56.4 |
|
Support for Students with Disabilities |
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Accessible Buildings Program |
5.0 |
5.0 |
- |
- |
10.0 |
|
Special school upgrades |
7.7 |
125.6 |
181.7 |
10.4 |
326.0 |
|
Total asset initiatives |
481.7 |
727.5 |
416.2 |
22.1 |
1,648.5 |
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