Key statistics - Residential Care Workers Register

Last update: 02 March 2026

End-of-quarter NSW Residential Care Workers register statistics – 31 December 2025.

Summary

These are the quarterly figures for Q2 2025/26. Residential Care Workers Register Go-live date was 18 July 2022.

The data refers to currently engaged workers (recorded with an 'engaged' status on the register).

  • 24 of 70 NGOs are Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations (ACCO), 43 NGOs are accredited for Residential Care

  • 16% (was 17%) of current engagements are Back Capture* entries (1685 of 10626)

  • 19% (no change) of current engagements are staff sourced from Labour Hire agencies, across 26 agencies

  • 14% (no change) of currently engaged individuals work for multiple agencies, across 45 agencies (was 47)

  • 9.6% (9.4%) of currently engaged individuals identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. Of these, 36% (305 of 843) are engaged with ACCOs (was 32%)

 

* Back Capture engagements are those which had commenced prior to Register launch

** Multiple agency associations means the worker is engaged by more than one agency

The data for each quarter is a point in time, reflecting the figures on the register as at the time the data was run for that quarter. The data is therefore not cumulative as such, as changes to records over time may impact the figures in previous quarters, if the data for those quarters was re-run at a future date.

Latest quarter detailed statistics

31 Decemberr 2025

Workers engaged by DCJ or NGO

Some workers are engaged by both the DCJ and an NGO.

Workers engaged by DCJ or NGO
DCJ NGO
180 10,446

Labour hire

% and number of workers engaged through labour hire

There are 170 workers engaged through labour hire in DCJ and 1824 in NGOs.

Multiple associations

% and number of workers with multiple agency associations.

DCJ has 108 individuals with only one agency and 72 with multiple agencies. NGOs have 7403 individuals with only one agency and 1220 with multiple agencies.

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