Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission
Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission
Health, Disability and Ageing portfolio
Verified figures
- Contracts (all years): 3,242
- Contract value (all years): 840,079,790 AUD
- Contract value (2026): 21,878,167 AUD
- APS headcount: 1,870
- Budget 2026-27: 350,692 thousand AUD
- Highest total remuneration: 554,365 AUD
- Directory roles: no publishable rows matched — this means the figure is unknown, not nil
Figures use publishable matches only (alias, abn, exact, case, punct, trading_name, wide_exact). Retrieved 2026-09-01.
Coverage — named in the headline (1)
- 2021-03-01 — Government to appoint senior restraint practitioner to Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission
Passing mentions (10 shown)
Mentioned in the text but not the headline, so often not about this agency.
- 2026-06-25 — Movers & Shakers: Indigenous aged care commissioner appointed
- 2026-06-15 — Exemptions the biggest feature of Canberra’s new business KPMG ban
- 2026-06-08 — Home truths about care packages for older Australians
- 2026-05-13 — Budget 2026: Federal agency ups and downs
- 2026-05-12 — Headlines for the public service from the 2026-27 budget
- 2025-12-04 — Movers & Shakers: PM’s office plugs AUKUS leadership gap
- 2025-10-16 — Movers & Shakers: Aged care complaints commissioner appointed
- 2025-09-11 — Movers & Shakers: Secretary of Finance, a departure at ANU
- 2025-08-14 — Movers & Shakers: NLA boss to exit
- 2025-07-04 — Gallagher directs regulators to cut the clutter
Names over time
What each source called this agency, and in which years. Taken from the sources themselves, not from a register of establishment dates — those are not published.
| Reported as | Source | Years | Rows |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Aged Care Quality Agency ⚠️ | APSC APS Employment Data | 2013-14 to 2017-18 | 898 |
| Australian Aged Care Quality Agency ⚠️ | APSC agency metrics | 2013-14 to 2018-19 | 44 |
| Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission | APSC APS Employment Data | 2018-19 to 2025-26 | 1,287 |
| Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission | APSC agency metrics | 2018-19 to 2025-26 | 184 |
| Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission | AusTender (names as at today, not as at the contract) | 2018-19 to 2026-27 | 3,242 |
| Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission | Annual report KMP disclosure | 2018-19 to 2024-25 | 95 |
| Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission | Annual report governance tables | 2019-20 to 2024-25 | 26 |
| Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission | Annual report expenditure | 2022-23 to 2024-25 | 30 |
| Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission | Portfolio Budget Statements | 2024-25 to 2029-30 | 30 |
⚠️ This agency has not always carried its current name. Figures in the earlier years were reported as Australian Aged Care Quality Agency (2013-14 to 2018-19). They are shown here because the series is continuous, not because the agency is.
Payments to organisations — as reported by the agency
| Category | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Non-consultancy contracts | 15 | $61,832 |
| Consultancy | 15 | $50,286 |
Largest recipients across all reported years
| Organisation | ABN | Reported total | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| xAmplify Services Pty Ltd | 74632045080 | $18,998 | 2023-24, 2024-25 |
| Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu | 74490121060 | $14,214 | 2023-24, 2024-25 |
| Hays Specialist Recruitment (Australia) Pty Ltd | 47001407281 | $13,220 | 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 |
| Evolve FM | 52605472580 | $12,214 | 2023-24, 2024-25 |
| KPMG Australia | 51194660183 | $10,813 | 2022-23, 2023-24 |
| Macquarie Telecom Pty Ltd | 21082930916 | $9,093 | 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 |
| Pegasystems Limited | 59954141135 | $7,977 | 2024-25 |
| Ernst & Young | 75288172749 | $7,319 | 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 |
| FDC Fitout & Refurbishment (NSW) Pty Ltd | 29618496558 | $4,549 | 2022-23 |
| Hudson Global Resources (Aust) Pty Ltd | 21002888762 | $3,863 | 2022-23 |
| Randstad Pty Limited | 28080275378 | $3,482 | 2022-23 |
| Nous Group Pty Ltd | 66086210344 | $1,974 | 2022-23, 2023-24 |
From the expenditure disclosures in each annual report — a separate source from the AusTender contract figures above, and not directly comparable with them.
Workforce profile — as at 2025-12-31
| Measure | Value | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| % CALD | 26.3% | at this date |
| % Female | 69.5% | at this date |
| % Indigenous | 2.6% | at this date |
| % at the APS classification level | 72.7% | at this date |
| % non-ongoing | 7.5% | at this date |
| % part-time (ongoing employees) | 8.9% | at this date |
| % who have worked in only one agency (ongoing employees) | 60.3% | at this date |
| % with a bachelors degree or higher | 65.7% | at this date |
| % with a disability | 5.1% | at this date |
| Exit rate - from agency (ongoing employees) | 8.7% | Year ending December 2025 |
| Headcount | 1,870 | at this date |
| Mean Age (years) | 45.0 years | at this date |
| Median LOS in APS (years) | 3.4 years | at this date |
| Separation rate - from APS (ongoing employees) | 5.6% | at this date |
APSC APS Employment Data, counting this agency including any bodies beneath it. Headcount, not FTE — the APSED release does not publish FTE.
Year by year
| Measure | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| APS headcount | 214 | 286 | 226 | 268 | 276 | 470 | 515 | 593 | 834 | 1,161 | ||||
| Contracts | 54 | 165 | 356 | 984 | 403 | 752 | 322 | 174 | 32 | |||||
| Contract value | $4,418,883 | $14,743,497 | $65,355,821 | $132,361,185 | $121,606,834 | $247,991,062 | $204,454,597 | $39,806,611 | $9,341,301 | |||||
| Budget ($000) | 397,645 | 350,692 | ||||||||||||
| KMP disclosed | 6 | 5 | 9 | 28 | 28 | 10 | ||||||||
| Top total pay | $238,000 | $293,000 | $490,187 | $530,529 | $554,365 | $384,724 |
An empty cell means no publishable row for that year — unknown, not nil. Never read a blank as a fall to zero. ⚠️ This agency has not always carried its current name. Figures in the earlier years were reported as Australian Aged Care Quality Agency (2013-14 to 2018-19). They are shown here because the series is continuous, not because the agency is. 12 value(s) for this agency are withheld as implausible against its own median — see Outputs/agency_year_series.csv for them and why.
Sources — annual reports
Each link opens transparency.gov.au — the published source the figures were read from. The label names the table to look for.
° The portal does not publish a path for this report, so the link opens the agency's reports on transparency.gov.au rather than that year directly. Pick the year from there.
