Key element 5: Effective institutional and funding arrangements
Arrangements are individually developed between the Commonwealth and each state/territory government system and non-government school authority to enable integrated and coordinated approaches to policy, planning, funding and service delivery.
The coordinated and integrated arrangements will be tailored to the unique situation of each system and authority and recognise that they have different needs, histories, stages of development and policy emphases. Accordingly, these arrangements will be supportive of flexibility in local implementation.
The coordinated and integrated arrangements will be based on agreed performance measures that are outcome driven. These arrangements need to be broad based in order to encourage and facilitate greater stability in government funding, greater cooperation at the community level, and greater flexibility.