Blackwood Street 3 Year Old Pre-School Program Centre overview
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114 Blackwood StreetYarraville, VIC, 3013
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At Yarraville Community Centre, we offer childcare for children aged from 6 months to 5 years across two venues in Yarraville.
114 Blackwood Street, Yarraville (Three-year-old pre-school program)
Helping children prepare for kindergarten and school. We aim to support your child’s school readiness in an exciting and engaging way. Operating 9am - 2pm Tuesday - Thursday.
https://www.ycc.net.au/114-blackwood-street-yarraville-childcare/
59 Francis Street, Yarraville
We offer high-quality, affordable childcare in a happy, safe and healthy environment for children aged 6 months to 5 years. There is an option to book permanent and casual positions for your child. Operating 9am - 2pm Monday - Friday.
https://www.ycc.net.au/59-francis-street-yarraville/
Lovely and safe place for children from all ages Lovely and safe place for children from all ages
Whilst the educators are lovely and my child enjoys her time at this centre, when compared to other private city centres, this centre... Whilst the educators are lovely and my child enjoys her time at this centre, when compared to other private city centres, this centre could benefit from better digital comms for daily updates on child's activities. The centre uses scrap books and newsletters via email as a way of comms with parents. Sometimes communication about bookweek etc are missed as posters outside class rooms are used to communicate with parents and if you are not paying attention on pick up or drop off it will be missed. Other centres offer apps with photos of child during the day, menu for the week, updates on activities so parents are regularly informed. This centre relies on parents speaking to educators about their child's day which is hard at busy drop off and pick up times. The other big downside is inflexibility of this centre with no ability to access a buy/sell program so when you are on holidays you have to pay for services you are not using and there is no holiday discount whatsoever. This is very inconvenient for full time children with parents paying full fees. This has been raised to Gowrie head office management multiple times but given this centre is oversubscribed due to shortage of centres in yarraville, I doubt anything will change. When seeking a discount for children who are recovering from surgery, got no reply for months and then received the most non empathetic response from center manager and head office saying no. They sell those days to other parents making twice the money. I also think for children under 2 years old, the playgrounds are not very safe having seen a few children hit their head on the concrete. Centre and head office management at Gowrie are not helpful and the centre is not very friendly to parents seeking help. There are way better child care centers in city and in the west Read more
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Week On Us
1. Make an enquiry on www.careforkids.com.au to a participating long day care service between Monday 16 September 2024 6:00 AM AEST and Friday 22 November 2024 11.59 PM AEDT.
2. Participating services are identified with a “Care for Kids Limited Offer” badge.
3. Enrol at the same participating long day care service that you enquired to through www.careforkids.com.au by 11.59 PM AEDT Friday 22 November 2024.
4. Email georga@careforkids.com.au by 11.59 PM AEDT Friday 22 November 2024 to advise of your enrolment, to enter the promotion.
5. There are a maximum of thirty (30) vouchers in the promotion, each up to the maximum value of $150 for use on long day childcare costs for thirty (30) children only.
6. The voucher goes towards each winner’s parent co-payment contribution for the period of one (1) week for one (1) child only and is payable directly to the childcare centre.
7. Full terms and conditions available to view here.
In January 2012 the National Quality Framework (NQF) came into effect across Australia.
The purpose of the NQF is to improve and standardise the quality of child care through a
range of measures including better staff to child ratios, higher staff qualifications
and an assessment and rating system designed to promote continuous improvement.
Under the NQF child care services are assessed and rated against the National Quality Standards (NQS).
The NQS measures the quality of early childhood education and care in Australia. It will cover
most long day care, family day care, preschool/kindergarten and outside school hours care services.
Under these standards child care services will be assessed and rated against the
seven quality areas, 18 standards and 58 elements that make up the NQS.