Getting started

Setting up an early learning centre

Updated 7 October 20261 min read

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How long day care services, kindergartens and childcare centres join I Recruit and book verified relief educators.

Step by step

1
Register your centre
Add the centre name, type of service, address and (optionally) your NQF service approval number. Opening hours start at 6:30am – 6:30pm; change them under Locations.
2
Add your rooms
Under Rooms, add each room with its age group (babies, toddlers, kinder/preschool) and, if you like, the minimum qualification for relief in that room.
3
We approve you
Our team checks every centre before its first booking, usually within one business day, and agrees your rates.
4
Book cover
Choose the room and the shift (Opener 6:30–3:00, Middle, Closer 10:00–6:30 or Full day). We offer it to verified educators who meet the qualification, starting with those experienced in that age group.

Every educator's ACECQA-approved qualification, first aid (with anaphylaxis and asthma), child protection training and working with children check (or teacher registration for ECTs) is checked by a person before they can be offered work.
A shift that needs a Diploma is never offered to a Certificate III educator. An ECT can cover an educator's shift; an educator can't cover an ECT's.
Ratios and your ECT attendance requirements stay yours to plan. We match to the qualification you ask for.