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One enrolment agreement signed on a Tuesday sets four deadlines: the enrolment notice, the first session report, the fam...
25/10/2026

One enrolment agreement signed on a Tuesday sets four deadlines: the enrolment notice, the first session report, the family's statement, and the last day you can fix that report yourself. We've put every CCS reporting deadline a provider has into one table, with what happens when a report is late or wrong.

Which of these deadlines does your centre find hardest to hit?

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CCS session reports are due 14 days after each week and enrolment notices 7 days. Every provider deadline under the Family Assistance Law, and why a late fix is still a breach.

Buying a centre rated Exceeding? Good news: nothing in the National Law resets the rating when the service approval chan...
23/10/2026

Buying a centre rated Exceeding? Good news: nothing in the National Law resets the rating when the service approval changes hands. Less good news: nothing locks it in either. We've set out what travels with the centre, what the regulator can change after settlement, and how to price the difference.

What did the rating count for in the last centre you looked at?

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Does a childcare centre's NQS rating survive a service approval transfer? What the National Law says, what can change after settlement, and how a buyer prices it.

Got a letter from the regulator? Whether it's a compliance direction, a compliance notice or an emergency action notice ...
20/10/2026

Got a letter from the regulator? Whether it's a compliance direction, a compliance notice or an emergency action notice changes your deadline, your review rights and whether it ends up on a public register. We've set out all four in one table, plus what a buyer should ask for when the register comes up clean.

Which of the four have you come across?

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What a childcare compliance notice, compliance direction, emergency action notice and enforceable undertaking require, whether each can be reviewed, and what a buyer can see.

Selling your childcare centre? Some of your records will stay with you long after the keys go. On settlement day, only t...
18/10/2026

Selling your childcare centre? Some of your records will stay with you long after the keys go. On settlement day, only the files of children enrolled that day move to the buyer, and only once a parent has consented. Incident records are kept until the child turns 25. We've set out every record, how long it lives, and who holds it.

Does your sale contract say who keeps the archive?

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Childcare record retention: what regulation 183 makes a centre keep, for how long, and which files pass to the buyer at settlement under regulation 184.

Building a childcare centre? The contribution conditions on your consent can fall due before the first sod is turned. In...
16/10/2026

Building a childcare centre? The contribution conditions on your consent can fall due before the first sod is turned. In NSW's four HPC regions, the state Housing and Productivity Contribution must be paid before the first construction certificate — on top of the council's own contribution or levy. Queensland prices childcare in its own regulation row and collects later. We've set out all three states, stage by stage.

Is the contributions line in your feasibility dated, or just costed?

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Developer contributions on a childcare DA in NSW, Queensland and Victoria: s 7.11, s 7.12, the HPC, Qld's Schedule 16 childcare row, and when each is paid.

The NSW workers compensation "freeze" holds the scheme's rates — not your premium. Your bill still moves with your wages...
13/10/2026

The NSW workers compensation "freeze" holds the scheme's rates — not your premium. Your bill still moves with your wages and your claims. We've set out how a childcare centre's premium is actually built in NSW, Victoria and Queensland: the 2026-27 childcare rate in each, the point where your own claims start to count, and the new two-week excess on NSW claims.

Do you know which side of your scheme's threshold your centre sits on?

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How workers compensation premiums are set for childcare centres in NSW, Victoria and Queensland: 2026-27 rates, claims thresholds, excess and sale rules.

Selling the shares in your childcare company instead of the business? The lease stays put — but a change-of-control clau...
11/10/2026

Selling the shares in your childcare company instead of the business? The lease stays put — but a change-of-control clause can still make the sale need your landlord's consent. And if you signed a personal guarantee, a share sale doesn't end it on its own. We've set out the six questions to ask of the clause, and what the NSW and ACT laws actually say.

Have you checked whether your lease reaches "indirect" control?

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Selling the shares in your childcare company? A change-of-control clause can still require the landlord's consent — and your personal guarantee may not end.

Super changed on 1 July 2026. Contributions now have to reach the fund within 7 business days of payday, and if they don...
09/10/2026

Super changed on 1 July 2026. Contributions now have to reach the fund within 7 business days of payday, and if they don't, the ATO assesses the charge for you — with an uplift that depends on how quickly you fix it. We've set out the old rules beside the new ones, plus how far back a wage underpayment reaches.

Does your payroll report show what reached each fund, payday by payday?

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Underpaid childcare staff? How back pay is counted, the six-year window, court interest, civil penalties, and the Payday Super charge from 1 July 2026.

Setting fees for 2027? The fee growth cap for services in the Worker Retention Payment is 5.8% until 7 August 2027 — and...
06/10/2026

Setting fees for 2027? The fee growth cap for services in the Worker Retention Payment is 5.8% until 7 August 2027 — and nothing on the Department's pages changes that on 1 December. We've set out which window applies to which service, and the two notices a fee change needs.

Which date do you work from when you plan an increase?

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Raising childcare fees? Which fee growth cap applies to your service, what 1 December 2026 changes, the date the Department measures, and who you must tell.

If a lender puts a receiver into a childcare centre, who's actually in charge?The receiver controls the property, the bu...
04/10/2026

If a lender puts a receiver into a childcare centre, who's actually in charge?

The receiver controls the property, the business and the staff. But the service approval stays with the company — and the centre can only be sold as a going concern if that approval is transferred to a buyer who's already approved, before it's cancelled.

We've laid out who holds what, what the landlord can and can't do, and what a buyer of a distressed centre is really buying.

Would you buy a centre from a receiver — and what would you want to see first?

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A receiver can take a childcare centre's property, business and staff — but not its service approval. Here is what receivership does, and what a going-concern sale needs.

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