Our vision is creating Queensland's future—early childhood, education and the arts.
Our purpose is delivering a quality early childhood sector, a high performing education system and supporting a vibrant arts and cultural sector for Queensland.
Our strategic direction
Our
Strategic Plan 2025–29 was published on 1 July 2025. It outlines how we will achieve our vision through our strategic objectives:
- every child starting strong
- every student achieving and realising their full potential
- vibrant arts and culture across the state
- capable, confident people, responsive systems, better outcomes.
Each objective has a set of strategies to achieve our goal, and performance measures to monitor our progress.
Our strategic objectives and service areas
Our strategic objectives are delivered through our service areas, which support the department to provide a broad range of responsive services to deliver government and departmental commitments and priorities.
Every child starting strong |
Early Childhood Education and Care Queensland children engaged in quality early years programs that support learning and development and strengthen successful transitions to school |
Every student achieving and realising their full potential |
School Education Queensland students engaged in learning, achieving and successfully transitioning to further education, training and work |
Each service area includes performance information about how we achieve the desired service delivery outcomes by delivering services efficiently and effectively.
Our challenges
In delivering on our strategic objectives, we identified the following challenges:
- Safeguarding the wellbeing and safety of children, students and our workforce.
- Strengthening the supply and retention of our diverse workforce.
- Keeping pace with technological advances and maintaining the integrity and security of our information and systems.
- Continuing to mature our prevention and preparedness for disruptive events.
- Responding to the needs of diverse communities and providing sustainable investment for future generations.
Our opportunities
We also identified opportunities to enhance delivery of our strategic objectives:
- Building a skilled and confident workforce through delivery of high-quality capability development opportunities.
- Strengthening local decision making within a system of support.
- Streamlining systems and processes to deliver improvements for staff and better outcomes for Queenslanders.
- Investing and working with partners to deliver better services for Queensland.
- Leveraging emerging technologies to enhance teaching and learning and provide efficient services.
In everything we do, we consider our enterprise risks: child and student protection and safety, workplace health and safety, information security and integrity.
The department monitors and manages its strategic risks and the areas of lowest risk appetite to respond to our challenges and opportunities to deliver on our strategic objectives. Information about initiatives to manage these risks can be found throughout the report.
Queensland Government's objectives for the community
The government's direction is informed by its broad objectives for the community. The objectives reflect the government's vision for Queensland. We support the following objectives:
Safety where you live | By supporting early intervention to keep young people engaged in learning and strengthening safety in early childhood education and care services and schools |
A plan for Queensland's future | By building the infrastructure needed for a growing population, putting more teachers in safer schools and preparing young Queenslanders for the future |
Queensland public service values
The Queensland public service values guide our employees' behaviour and decision making:
- Customers first
- Ideas into action
- Unleash potential
- Be courageous
The importance of adhering to and demonstrating these values is promoted through our Integrity Framework, Mandatory All-Staff Training program and Management Foundations program.