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SunSmart Resource Blueprint
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Current state gap analysis · April 2026
This is a living analysis of all 97 resources in the SunSmart NSW suite. It maps every resource against the four dimensions of the Blueprint – so you can see at a glance what's well-served, what's thin, and what's missing entirely.
It's built on three sources: the CCNSW April 2026 inventory spreadsheet, Deliverable B (internal resource analysis), and the live sunsmartnsw.com.au site. Where those sources disagree, we've flagged it.
The analysis is opinionated. Every recommendation – Keep, Refresh, Consolidate, Reposition – is grounded in the evidence base from the Sax Institute Realist Review, the sector scan, the audience research, and the Blueprint itself.
The current SunSmart suite is 97 resources, grown organically over a decade. This view maps every one against the four dimensions of the Blueprint – so we can see at a glance which audiences, stages, settings and domains are well-served, and which have nothing designed for them at all.
Switch lenses to see how the existing suite distributes across each of the Blueprint's structural dimensions. Click any card to see the resources behind the count – and the gaps.
Where domain meets developmental stage. Yellow intensity shows resource volume; the red dot marks a critical gap flagged in the analysis. Click any cell to see what's there – and what isn't.
Children aged 6–9 – the moment when "why" starts mattering – get almost no resources designed for them. ECEC has storybooks. Stage 3 has the Champions toolkit. The middle is empty.
27% of the suite is posters. Posters reinforce – they don't build capability or shift behaviour. Habits and Reinforcement are over-served; Learning has volume but no progression; Capability for adults is underweight.
OOSH gets 1 dedicated policy template and inherits everything else. Home & family gets three generic brochures and one broken newsletter snippet – yet parents are the highest-volume passive audience.
Released May 2025 to fill a gap users had named. 1,331 downloads – the most popular resource in the suite. When the work is targeted, audience-led and contemporary, engagement follows.
The ECEC policy template alone has 498 downloads. Schools and services are using SunSmart to get compliance and operations right – the question is whether the suite extends that strength into Learning and Reinforcement.
The gap analysis tells us what to build. The Blueprint tells us where it goes, who it's for, and how it connects – so the next decade of SunSmart resources is designed as a system, not added to a pile.
All 97 resources cross-referenced against the live site, CCNSW spreadsheet and Deliverable B – Quality, Engagement, Membership connection, Usage & reach, plus Classification and Identity context. Click any row to open the full dimensional breakdown.
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