How to complete monthly NSP reports

We’ve made two videos to help local project managers complete the monthly NSP reports required by the Australian Government’s BER Reporting Guidelines.

The videos show how an example school with $200,000 approved funding would fill in the two types of reports required for NSP:

1. Standard monthly reports
2. Final monthly report – Is this the right report for you? The final monthly report cannot be submitted until ALL your NSP works are physically finished on site and ALL bills have been paid

Standard Monthly Reports

To watch the video in full-screen, click on the bottom right corner of the video screen.

The video transcript contains definitions of fields in the Excel spreadsheet, and is a helpful reference for completing your monthly reports. Download the standard monthly report transcript [.pdf, 180kB]

Final monthly report

To watch the video in full-screen, click on the bottom right corner of the video screen.

The video transcript contains definitions of fields in the Excel spreadsheet, and is a helpful reference for completing your monthly reports. Download the final monthly report transcript [.pdf, 184.kB]

Things to remember

• Please send the monthly report to BERreporting@det.nsw.edu.au by the 5th working day of each month.
• A report must be submitted every month, even if there has been no activity that month. Reporting is required until the final monthly report has been successfully completed.
• Do not change the reporting information that was already entered into your school’s reporting template for May 2009.
• Your entire NSP funding allocation is considered to be one project by DEEWR regardless of how many NSP works you actually deliver with this funding allocation.
• Each month equals ONE row in your monthly reporting template. For example, if you are undertaking a number of NSP works, you should combine all this information into the one row.
• Each month must be added to the reporting template as a NEW row. The reporting data from the previous months should be left intact and not deleted or amended in any way.
• As your NSP funding allocation is considered one project your start date is when the first job started. A project has started when a financial or contractual commitment to do the works is made. If there is no such prior commitment the start date is the date when works actually start on site.
• You cannot reverse your project’s status category. For instance, if your reporting category for last month was C then it cannot be A this month.

And finally, if you cannot find the monthly reporting template that we sent on 9 July, please email us at: BERreporting@det.nsw.edu.au.