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Buying a childcare service

Looking to buy a childcare service?

All the help and support you need to navigate your decisions and choose the best service for you. Childcare is a highly regulated complicated industry.

You need provider approval, service approval and CCS (Child Care Subsidy) approval to own a childcare service.

We can help navigate you through the process of buying a service including how to become an approved provider, service approval, financial analysis, parent accounts review, occupancy levels, government childcare subsidies and childcare licencing requirements.

We can walk you through it all and ensure you get the right start to fulfilling your dreams.

Building a childcare service

Ever dreamt of building the best childcare centre?

How a service is built is the literal foundation for the future quality of your service.

We can assist in centre design, playground design, council approval, building approval, assistance with centre fit out, childcare service approval and staffing.

Creating the best early childhood education environments with the highest quality supervision standards.

We offer a one stop shop where we can assist in centre design right the way through from opening to running the service.

Startup essentials

Are you ready for day one?

All your business development is done, marketing planned out and paperwork organised to ensure best quality day to day operation of your service from day one.

Developing your initial philosophy, policies, procedures, staffing systems, educational programming systems, self assessment and your first Quality Improvement Plan (QIP).

Assistance in choosing and support in setting up the accounting package and the childcare management software package perfect for your needs.

Selling your childcare Service

Do you want to pass on your legacy to someone new?

Do you want to pass on your legacy to someone new?

Ensuring your service is ‘ready to buy’.

Preparation of crucial documents and financial accounts to empower you to advertise your service for sale by owner or by agency.

Finding the right fit to entrust your service to.

Change and refresh

Experiencing changes or need a refresh?

After time or with a change of management, goals can sometimes get lost.

Ensure your service’s vision is strong and you are on track to achieving your goals financially, marketing wise and for your ratings.

Are your current systems effective and efficient?

This industry is fast paced and has frequently updated requirements, refresh and stay on top of all the changes to ensure your paperwork is up to date.

Review your current philosophy, policies, procedures, staffing systems, educational programming systems, self assessment and your Quality Improvement Plan (QIP).

Assessment and rating planning

Want to plan for Assessment and Ratings success in the future?

Every childcare service is rated against the National Quality Standards at least every three years by ECRU (Education and Care Regulatory Unit).

How to prepare for and succeed on the day.

Long term stepping stones supporting your journey, helping you achieve your goal of meeting the National Quality Standards or the dream of an exceeding rating and even the ultimate, excellence rating.

Assessment and rating SOS

Has ECRU just notified you of the start of your service’s Assessment and Ratings?

Immediate help to guide and support your team through the ratings process.

Timeframes, how to prepare, supporting you and your staffing team to put their best foot forward and succeed on the day.

A whirlwind of prep to highlight your QIP (Quality Improvement Plan) strengths, empower your educators and ensure ECRU (Education and Care Regulatory Unit) sees you for the incredible service that you are.

We can also offer you a QIP SOS refresh.

QIP planning

Do you have a QIP that showcases the value of your ever improving service?

Your QIP (Quality Improvement Plan) is one of the most important and complex documents you need.

Your QIP shows your quality journey.

ECRU (Education and Care Regulatory Unit) uses your QIP to guide their enquiries into how your service operates and award you with a quality rating.

Your QIP gives them the questions to ask you during your assessments and ratings process, you write your own test questions, so you can prepare and evidence your answers.

Help to start your base QIP and then guidance over time to build on it and meet your goals creating a true live document that informs the quality practices of your service.

QIP SOS

Have you been notified your QIP needs to be submitted to ECRU within 24 hours?

Step one of ECRU’s (Education and Care Regulatory Unit) Assessment and Ratings process for your service is notifying you that you have 24 hours to hand in your QIP (Quality Improvement Plan).

QIP is one of the most important and complex documents you need.

SOS help ensures you have a clear, succinct, updated and relevant QIP to present to ECRU and for your staffing team to put into action.

Your QIP gives ECRU the questions to ask you during your assessments and ratings process.

You write your own test questions, so you can prepare and evidence your answers.

Childcare compliance

Are you sure you are fully compliant with childcare requirements, regulations and rules?

Knowledge and understanding of compliance to the many and detailed childcare requirements is at the base of your services ability to remain legal.

Be assured of full compliance around ECRU (Education and Care Regulatory Unit) and ACECQA (Australian Children’s Education & Care Quality Authority) regulations.

Childcare industry also has many other additional compliance requirements involving other different specialised areas: health and safety, food safety, child protection, safe sleeping, first aid, health and hygiene and many more.

Be secure in the knowledge you have a system that works perfectly each and every day.

Exceeding journey

Do you dream of being awarded an exceeding rating?

An exceeding rating sets you apart from other services.

Seeking meaningful engagement with your community, critically reflecting on your values and embedding these values into your service leads to a strong exceeding rated service trusted and valued in your community.

We can help you from idea development to supporting you to achieve these exceeding practices.

Centre efficiency

Are you maximising your service capacity?

How each classroom is designed and managed, square meterage, playground design, age groupings and educational programme all affect how efficiently your service is run.

Ensure you are making the most out of each opportunity and providing the optimal functioning space to educate and care for your children.

In your office, blending business acumen for managing your income and expenses, dealing with parent accounts, navigating the CCS system with the specific expertise in childcare is needed for success.

Occupancy

Interested in maximising your occupancy?

How to ensure each and every child and family wants to be part of your community and is motivated to enrol at your service.

How do you highlight your educational approach and how you support families in their lives.

Be the most sought-after service, keeping your service full and maintaining a healthy wait list.

Educational Programming

Are the children in your service getting the best quality early childhood education?

Identify what educational theorists you believe in and how you can embed these ideals into your service.

Bring the EYLF (Early Years Learning Framework V2) to life in your service and celebrate each child’s unique learning journey

Play space design

Could your play spaces do with an upgrade?

Create your service’s ideal play spaces both inside in the classrooms and outside in the playgrounds.

Environment is considered the third teacher.

Offer safe play spaces that provide educational challenges to extend on children’s learning.

Does your space reflect inclusive practices and honour people with different abilities and cultures?

We can design budget conscious progressive play spaces that can be scheduled over time ensuring it is cost effective, maintenance friendly and long lasting.

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