Promise 1 of 3
Live readiness, every day
A continuous score across ACECQA, NCCD and NPCSO. Not an annual sprint.
Review Readiness for public schools
Walk into your next review with the work already done
Map. Link. Close. EthosGov turns ACECQA, NCCD and the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations from an annual scramble into a continuous record of evidence, signed off by the Principal.
ACECQA, NCCD, NPCSO
Promise 2 of 3
Three frameworks, one record
National obligations every public school carries, held as one source of evidence.
Promise 3 of 3
Signed-off by Friday
Reports for the Principal and council, generated from the work itself.
You know this story
You sign every framework return for the school.You don't hold every piece of evidence behind it.
Public school principals and deputies carry the same quiet weight, year on year. EthosGov holds the evidence chain so the signature at the bottom is one you can defend.
Beat 01. Today
The map is in your team's heads, not yours.
The NCCD spreadsheet. The ELC coordinator's coverage roster. The chaplain's safeguarding notes. The deputy's drive with last year's evidence pack. The map that ties them together lives across eight people, none of whom is you.
the deputy's drivethe chaplain's binderthe ELC coordinator's laptopan OSHC team chata WHS register on paperFederation drivea NCCD spreadsheet"the Principal will know"Beat 02. The rhythm of dread
Audit cycles aren't a system. They're a rescue mission.
Every cycle starts the same way. A late-term scramble to rebuild the evidence pack from drives and emails, a Saturday spent cross-checking last year's NCCD against this year's roll, a deputy carrying the load while you carry the signature.
Term 1Term 2Term 3Visit dayBeat 03. With EthosGov
When the assessor visits, you read what they read.
Thirty-three of forty satisfied. Five gaps with named owners. Two partials with a 90-day plan. Sign-off Friday afternoon. The conversation in the visit becomes a status update, not a story you have to tell.
33/40 satisfied5 gaps2 partialsSigned Friday
Three easy steps
From scattered evidence to a continuous record
No new system to learn from scratch. No migration. Three moves between the framework and your school's actual work.
- Step 01
Map
Choose the framework that hits next: ACECQA, NCCD, or NPCSO. The standards, criteria and requirements load with their hierarchy intact. No more starting from a blank Word doc.
Live readiness from day one - Step 02
Link
Attach evidence to every criterion. A file, a URL, or an existing EthosGov artefact. The link stays live: when the policy updates, the criterion sees the latest version. One source of truth, reused across every framework.
One source of truth - Step 03
Close
EthosGov shows you where the gaps are. Assign owners and due dates. Convert partial criteria into satisfied ones. Run the 90-day readiness check before any visit. Export a regulator-ready submission pack.
Close the gaps
Product proof
See it in motion
A living criterion record, not a row in a spreadsheet. Evidence stays linked to the policy that proves it. Status updates as work happens. The council view is automatic.
- Each criterion holds its evidence, status and owner on one record.
- Update a policy once. Every criterion that links to it sees the new version.
- Sensitive records stay locked to named approvers. The audit trail is the work.
Coverage
The three national frameworks every public school carries
Mapped once, evidenced live. The same policies and records satisfy multiple frameworks at once.
Assessment and rating visit
National Quality Standard
Live NQS evidence per service, ready for the next assessment and rating without a scramble.
Public schools running approved ELC, preschool or OSHC services.
- Standards
- 7 standards
- Criteria
- 40 criteria
- Requirements
- 139 requirements
Annual data submission and audit
Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability
Adjustments, consultation and disability evidence aligned to the Standards, ready for the August submission.
Every Australian public school enrolling students who receive adjustments.
- Standards
- 6 standards
- Criteria
- 10 criteria
- Requirements
- 27 requirements
Cross-sector child-safe baseline
National Principles for Child Safe Organisations
A live child-safe posture across leadership, staffing, complaints and culture, signed off by the Principal.
Every public school as a child-safe organisation.
- Standards
- 10 standards
- Criteria
- 21 criteria
- Requirements
- 51 requirements
What changes for you
A different conversation about review
Readiness self-check
Six questions. An honest readiness picture.
Privately scored in your browser. No email needed to see your number. Bring it to your deputy, your council, or the consult.
- 1
If the assessor visited next month, where would your evidence come from?
- 2
What does your current ACECQA, NCCD or NPCSO self-assessment look like?
- 3
Who owns the gaps between cycles?
- 4
When the council asks whether the school is review-ready, what is the answer?
- 5
How current is your evidence today?
- 6
Producing the regulator's submission feels like:
Your readiness, so far
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Complete every question to see your score.
Frequently asked
What principals and deputies ask first
How long does it take to set up?
Most schools have their primary framework loaded and 60 to 70 percent of evidence linked within the first term. The first cycle is the biggest lift; every cycle after is incremental.
Do I have to migrate our drives?
No. EthosGov links to where evidence already lives, in SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive, or any policy library. You connect rather than migrate.
What about evidence that crosses frameworks, like our child-safety policy?
Map it once. The same child-safety policy satisfies an NPCSO criterion, the relevant ACECQA Quality Area, and any DSE adjustment context that touches it. Cross-framework reuse is the point.
Who in our school can see what?
Permissions follow role. Subject leads see only the criteria assigned to them. Deputy principals see the working layer. Council members see readiness summaries. Sensitive evidence stays locked to named approvers.
Can we hand the output to the regulator?
Yes. Export a framework-specific submission pack with criteria, status, evidence references and sign-off, as a PDF or a structured file ready for ACECQA's portal or the NCCD submission window.
How is this different from the project tracker we already use?
A project tracker holds tasks. EthosGov holds the standard, the criterion, the evidence, the status and the sign-off as one record. The work itself is the audit trail.
What does this cost?
Per-school annual licence, priced on enrolment and module footprint. We will give you the number on a 30-minute consult once we know which frameworks you are carrying.
Where does the data live?
Australian-hosted infrastructure. ISO-aligned posture. EthosGov is built for the regulatory environment Australian public schools operate in.
Walk into your next review with the work already done
Book a thirty-minute consult. We will map the framework that hits you next, walk through your existing evidence, and give you a realistic readiness picture before you commit to anything.