Our publishing model
Vic.gov.au operates on a distributed authoring model. This means that Victorian public servants working within departmental branches and agencies are upskilled to develop, create and edit pages themselves.
Everything you need to know about working in the CMS is provided for you in our content and CMS guides.
Below is a step-through of each of the stages in our publishing workflow.
Publishing standard time frames
The Single Digital Presence publishing hours are 9am - 5pm, Monday - Friday.
Content updates on vic.gov.au will be published within 2 business days from the time of request.
Larger updates, such as publications or multiple pages, may take longer to be published due to the nature of the quality checking.
After-hours publishing requests
After-hours publishing can be scheduled during business hours.
Exceptions include:
- new messages from the Premier’s office
- pre-approved launches where there is a public health or safety reason
- updates to existing content if it is factually inaccurate.
What we will change and what we won't
Once you have set your page to needs review, the publishing manager on duty will check the page against the web content publishing checklist.
If the required changes are minor and don’t exceed 5 minor edits, the publishing manager will make the changes on your behalf and publish the page.
Edits made on a page will be described in the CMS page's revision notes.
If a page requires more than 5 minor edits, or the content requires re-wording or layout consideration, the publishing manager will return the page to draft status and contact the editor via the Federated publishing service desk.
We will also send your page back if it looks like there is something you have forgotten how to do and you need to practice. For example if your email addresses aren't correctly hyperlinked.
Content we edit on your page
Publishing managers may make the following minor edits on your content without consultation:
- broken links
- spelling errors
- hyperlinking email addresses and phone numbers
- fixing capitalisation or punctuation on bulleted lists
- fixing heading hierarchy
- add table of contents or button style if recommended.
Content we cannot change
Publishing managers will not make changes to any wording or layout of content without consulting the content editor.
Our publishing workflow
Reviewed 15 December 2022
Single Digital Presence
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- Information and services
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) information
- Grants and programs
- Jobs and careers
- Arts and sport
- Business and the workplace
- Communities
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- Education
- Early childhood education – information for professionals
- Schools
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- Education – information for parents
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- School
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- Supporting your child's education
- How to build your child's literacy skills from birth to Grade 2
- How to build your child's numeracy skills from birth to Grade 2
- How to build your child's literacy skills from years 3 to 6
- How to build your child’s numeracy skills years 3 to 6
- Literacy and numeracy tips in your language
- Tutor learning initiative - extra learning support for your child
- Find a language program
- Encouraging science, technology, engineering and maths skills
- Ways to get involved with your child's school
- Speak to your child in the language you know best
- Find your school
- School policy and guidance
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- Disability and inclusive education
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- Starting, attending and leaving school with disability
- Starting school for children with additional needs
- Moving to secondary school for students with additional needs
- Getting to and from school for students with disability
- Travel training for students commuting to specialist school
- Leaving school and career planning - students with disability
- Understanding communication needs and getting support
- Speech, language and communication assessment
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- Disability support at school
- Support for students with high care needs
- Extra learning support for students with additional needs
- Extra support from specialist staff in schools
- Working with education providers if your child has additional needs
- Student support groups for children with additional needs
- How you can support your child with additional needs at home
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- Physical disability at school
- Understanding physical disability and health care needs for education
- Hearing assessments
- Support in early childhood for hearing loss
- Support at school for hearing loss
- Understanding hearing loss
- Understanding vision impairment
- Getting assessed for vision impairment
- Support at school for students with vision impairment
- COVID-19 information for parents
- TAFE & training
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- Child Safe Standards
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- Minimum regulations
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- Schools and school boarding premises
- Culturally safe environments
- Child safety and wellbeing
- Child and student empowerment
- Family engagement
- Diversity and equity
- Suitable staff and volunteers
- Complaints processes
- Child safety knowledge, skills and awareness
- Child safety in physical and online environments
- Review of child safety practices
- Implementation of child safety practices
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- Non-school providers
- Culturally safe environments
- Child safety and wellbeing
- Child and student empowerment
- Family engagement
- Diversity and equity
- Suitable staff and volunteers
- Complaints processes
- Child safety knowledge, skills and awareness
- Child safety in physical and online environments
- Implementation of child safety practices
- Documentation of child safety practices
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- Registered training organisations
- Culturally safe environments
- Child safety and wellbeing
- Child and student empowerment
- Family engagement
- Diversity and equity
- Suitable staff and volunteers
- Complaints processes
- Child safety knowledge, skills and awareness
- Child safety in physical and online environments
- Implementation of child safety practices
- Documentation of child safety practices
- International education providers
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- Awards
- Secretary's Marrung Awards
- Victorian Training Awards
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- Victorian Education Excellence Awards
- Victorian Education Excellence Awards winners
- Victorian Education Excellence Awards categories
- Victorian Education Excellence Awards finalists
- Victorian Education Excellence Awards honour roll
- Victorian Education Excellence Awards nominations
- Victorian Education Excellence Awards alumni stories
- Victorian School Sports Awards
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- Education State
- About the Education State
- Education State targets
- Find your school's funding
- Fairer funding for Victorian schools
- Initial teacher education reforms
- Early childhood reform
- Kindergarten funding reform
- The Early Years Compact
- Vocational and applied learning workforce programs for senior secondary schools
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- Program directory
- Career start: transforming the first years of the teaching career
- Victorian Anti Bullying Initiative
- School Breakfast Clubs program
- Speech pathology in schools
- Swimming in schools
- School Readiness Funding: helping children get the most out of kindergarten
- Safe Schools
- High Intensity Outside School Hours Care Initiative for students with disabilities
- Respectful Relationships
- Best Start
- Board certified behaviour analyst pilot project
- Transforming career education
- Free sanitary pads and tampons in all government schools
- Year 9 NAPLAN certificates of achievement
- Doctors in secondary schools initiative
- Active schools program
- Trade Training Centres in Schools
- Education Plans
- Glasses for kids
- LOOKOUT Education Support Centres
- Marrung
- Student Excellence Program
- Asylum seeker Vocational Education Training program
- deafConnectEd
- Reconnect
- Raising Expectations
- International Specialised Skills Institute
- Senior secondary schooling pathway reforms
- Early childhood language program
- Inclusive education for students with disabilities
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- Research
- Research strategy and priorities
- Conduct research for the Department of Education
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- Reports on children and young people
- On Track survey
- Victorian child health and wellbeing survey
- School Entrant Health Questionnaire
- Effective Early Education Experiences - E4Kids Study
- State of Victoria's Children Report
- Victorian student health and wellbeing survey
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- Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) Victoria
- Using the AEDC: research, resources and data sources
- Using AEDC: reports
- Victorian Local Champions project
- Comprehensive monitoring: an AEDC extension project
- AEDC conferences and events
- AEDC case studies
- AEDC Victorian results - change over time
- Trends from the AEDC
- AEDC: key findings from 2018 and 2015
- Visualising the Evidence
- Research and evaluation publications
- ACFE Regional Council Resources Hub
- Research about transition to school
- Research and evaluation register
- Victorian Child and Adolescent Monitoring System
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- Premiers' Reading Challenge
- Including all students in the Challenge
- Challenge dates for 2022
- Challenge rules
- Book lists
- How to register or login
- How to use the application
- Guidance for students and parents
- Guidance for home-based readers
- Guidance for early childhood services and parents
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- Administration information for all school coordinators
- Government school coordinators: setting up the Challenge
- Catholic school coordinators: setting up the Challenge
- Independent school coordinators: setting up the Challenge
- Independent school administrators: setting up the Challenge
- Top tips from the coordinators
- How to send student logins via email in bulk
- Meet our author
- Meet our illustrator
- Promotion resources
- Diverse Learners Hub
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- Environment, water and energy
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- Building Victoria's circular economy
- Victoria's plan for a circular economy
- Regional Recycling Fund
- Standardising household recycling across Victoria
- Container deposit scheme
- Circular Economy Business Innovation Centre
- New recycling laws and governance
- Strengthening Victoria’s waste and recycling industry
- Waste to energy
- Health and social support
- Housing and property
- Law and justice
- Safety and emergencies
- Traffic and transport
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- Working in the Victorian Government
- Careers in the Victorian Government
- Guidelines for working in government
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- Publish content on vic.gov.au
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- Content types and templates
- Create new page
- Grants content page
- Create profile listing
- Create event page
- Create news content
- Create a life event guide
- Case studies guidelines
- Topic landing pages
- Content about government policy, ministers and groups
- Department and agency content
- Translated content
- Site-section landing page guidelines
- Campaign content
- Digital training for VPS
- Join a government network
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- About the VIC Government
- Victorian Government Directory
- The Premier and ministers
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- Departments and agencies
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- Department of Education
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- Jobs and working with us
- Apply for a job in the early childhood sector
- Teacher incentives program: information for teachers and principals
- Types of careers in the early childhood sector
- Types of teacher
- Regional education careers
- Allied health careers in education
- Get qualified to become a teacher
- Get a teaching job
- About the department
- Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
- Department of Families, Fairness and Housing
- Department of Government Services
- Department of Health
- Department of Jobs, Skills, Industry and Regions
- Department of Justice and Community Safety
- Department of Transport and Planning
- Department of Treasury and Finance
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- Standards and guidelines
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- Advertising and government communications
- Vic Gov communication requirements
- Ensuring we reach all Victorians
- Accessibility guidelines for government communications
- Sponsorship policy and guidelines
- Authorisation tags for government advertising
- Advertising plans and spend
- Master Agency Media Services (MAMS) contract
- Print management and associated services contract
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- Digital guides
- Make content accessible
- Producing multilingual content
- Design and develop a digital presence
- Make your project open source
- Create and manage email newsletters
- Decide if you need a mobile app
- Measure how content performs
- Understand the API design principles
- Create a content strategy and manage content
- Protect privacy
- Apply for a domain name
- Manage online records
- Test a product or service
- Use social media
- Manage ministerial content
- Secure your service
- Manage content for a caretaker or new government
- Add a financial transaction
- Publish an open data set
- Set up a public consultation
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- Digital strategy and transformation
- Digital Strategy 2021-2026
- Cyber security
- IT dashboard
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- Policies and standards
- Automated briefing and correspondence policies, standards and guidelines
- Data policies and standards
- Digital workplace strategy
- Guiding principles for shared services
- Identity and access management policies and standards
- Information management policies and standards
- IT project management policy and guides
- IT project and expenditure reporting standard and guidelines
- Technology policies and standards
- Digital capability uplift
- Statements of direction
- About us
- Guidelines for working in government
- Budget, procurement and funding
- Strategies and policies
- Inquiries and royal commissions
- Victoria's free public wi-fi
