The Department of Education is also conducting an anonymous online survey to better understand the views and needs of the ECEC workforce.
The survey is for educators, teachers, directors, managers and coordinators working in Centre Based Day Care (Long Day Care and Occasional Care), Family Day Care, Outside School Hours Care and In Home Care.
What do I need to do?
Share information about the survey with staff at your service to encourage them to complete it:
Don't forget to complete the survey yourself if you are also a director, manager, coordinator, teacher or educator.
FAQ
The survey is being carried out by ORIMA Research, on behalf of the Australian Government Department of Education (the Department).
The 2025 ECEC Staff Survey covers the following areas:
- Your satisfaction with job, employment conditions and workplace culture
- Your wellbeing
- Your views on working in the ECEC sector
- Your attraction to and retention in the ECEC sector
The survey is for educators, teachers, directors, managers and coordinators working in:
- Centre Based Day Care (Long Day Care and Occasional Care)
- Family Day Care
- Outside School Hours Care or
- Preschools/ Kindergartens.
The survey should take around 10 minutes to complete.
Yes! Your participation in the survey is voluntary and the answers you provide will be treated as private and confidential. Findings will be provided in a de–identified way so that no person or the service that they work at can be identified. Your responses will not be provided to the ECEC service you are employed at.
You can read about ORIMA Research’s privacy policy here.
You can read about the Department’s privacy policy here.
This online survey is being conducted between 3 November and 15 December 2025.
At the end of the online survey, you are asked whether you would like to be in the draw to win one of fifty (50) $200 gift vouchers. If so, you are asked to provide your mobile phone number.
The distribution of prizes is as follows:
- 12 vouchers each for participants from New South Wales (NSW), Victoria (VIC) and Queensland (QLD)
- 4 vouchers each for participants from Western Australia (WA) and South Australia (SA)
- 2 vouchers each for participants from Australian Capital Territory (ACT), Tasmania (TAS) and Northern Territory (NT).
The prize draw will be conducted on 17 December 2025 (“Drawing Date”). Winners will be selected at random from all eligible entries received by the close of the survey fieldwork period, with separate draws conducted for each state and territory.
Winners will be notified via SMS using the phone number provided with their survey response. Notification will occur within seven (7) business days of the Drawing Date.
Prizes consist of digital gift vouchers supplied by GiftPay Australia. For more information on GiftPay, visit (GiftPay Gift Cards Australia | Instant Online eVouchers).
Click here to view the terms and conditions of the prize draw.
You can send the 2025 Staff Survey link below to your staff:
https://research.orima.com/ecec/staff2025
Help
ORIMA Research Pty Ltd has been contracted by the Department of Education to administer the 2025 ECEC Staff Survey. For login issues or technical queries, contact ORIMA at: surveys@orima.com
If you have questions about the survey, contact the Australian Government Department of Education at: ECECStaffSurvey@education.gov.au
Privacy Policies
ORIMA’s Privacy Policy is available at: ORIMA Privacy Policy and contains further details regarding how you can access or correct information we hold about you, how you can make a privacy related complaint and how that complain will be dealt with.
The Department’s Privacy Policy is available at: Department of Education Privacy Policy
