High-quality assets have the potential to lift overall service outcomes, so all social infrastructure providers must take explicit steps to acknowledge that asset planning is a critical component of successful service planning.
As these organisations become more mature, they should move beyond standalone, sector-specific asset planning to integrated planning.
Data-sharing arrangements should be negotiated with public and private schools to improve infrastructure planning. This includes sharing private school enrolment data that is currently exclusively held by the Australian Government.
This will make it possible for public services to be more flexible and better able to respond to diverse community needs, because they are planned and delivered across a variety of physical and digital government assets.
Additionally, the roles played by transport, telecommunications and digital infrastructure in helping people access these services should be considered in social infrastructure service planning.