In great news for the sector more than half of the assessed and rated children's services are Meeting or Exceeding Australia's rigorous new quality standards.

ACECQA has just released the results in its most recent Snapshot, which is a quarterly report on how services are doing against the national quality standard.

ACECQA Board Chair Rachel Hunter said the figures in the latest Snapshot largely mirrored the spread of quality ratings shown in ACECQA's initial report released in May 2013.

"About 56 per cent of assessed and rated services continue to meet or exceed the National Quality Standard," said Ms Hunter.

Other key highlights from the Snapshot include:

• 19 per cent of the 13,284 children's education and care services in Australia have now received a quality rating against the NQS
• Services are more likely to achieve a rating of Exceeding in Quality Area 5 Relationships with children and Quality Area 6 Partnerships with families and communities
• Services are least likely to achieve a rating of Exceeding NQS in Quality Area 1 Educational program, Quality Area 2 Children's health and safety and practice and Quality Area 3 Physical environment
• The number of approved family day care services has increased by 15 per cent between 1 April and 30 June 2013
• 60,513 supervisor certificates have been issued under the NQF

For the first time the Snapshot reported on services in remote areas and areas of socio-economic disadvantage.

Early results show that services areas of socio-economic disadvantage are just as likely to be rated as Exceeding the NQS as those in the areas of greatest social advantage.

"For services rated to date there is no clear pattern emerging between socio-economic advantage and quality," said Ms Hunter.

"Services in disadvantaged areas are just as likely to meet or exceed the standards as those services in more advantaged areas."

"Ms Hunter said the small number of services rated in remote and very remote areas made it difficult to compare services by remoteness, however at this stage it appeared that remoteness may have very little effect on the spread of ratings."

Read ACECQA's Q2 Snapshot in full