b'Consistent qualityEnsuring consistent quality across all of our services is aand the NDIS Practice Standards, which will also help to key goal of our strategic plan. During the year, we haveprepare us for our external audit for NDIS certification been aligning our core professional practice standardsnext year. for working with children and families in our earlyWe have been implementing a new online system learning centres, our childrens therapies, and our familyto support the practices in our centres and the quality support programs. This has involved a major projectimprovement processes required under the National with a number of our Brighter Futures staff working withQuality Framework for childrens education and care the Parenting Research Centre to design and formulateservices. Since July 2018, 12 of our centres have our practice framework for working with families withinundergone external assessment and rating, and of our that program. We have also been reviewing and revising23 centres, 15 are now rated as Exceeding the National the practice standards for our childrens therapies toQuality Standard (NQS) and eight are rated as Meeting ensure they align with the National Disability Standardsthe Standard.As a comparison, the latest NQF Snapshot from ACECQA as at 30 June 2019 reports that in NSW, just 27 %65 %of services have been rated as Exceeding the standard, whileof SDNs services have been rated as Exceeding. 22 23'