Exceeding Rating Childcare
Exceeding Rating for Childcare Centres
Our childcare software does it all for your centre and is guaranteed to save you time – OR YOUR MONEY BACK!!
You’ve Used Some of the Other Childcare Apps Out There like Xplor, Storypark or Qikkids.
Sure they’re ok. But they don’t do everything, right?
Rostering
Ensure adequate staffing to meet ratios and deliver quality care
Quality Improvement
Demonstrate a whole-team approach to your QIP in OWNA.
Curriculum
Align your program and documentation to EYLF & MTOP
Family Engagement
Ensure National Law & National Regulations are being met
Exceeding Rating Childcare Centre
What does it mean to get an Exceeding rating in the NQS?
If you’re in the childcare sector, there’s no doubt that you’re already more than aware of just how important it is to ensure that your centre is rated highly by the Australian Children’s Education & Care Quality Authority (ACECQA). A positive rating from ACECQA helps to confirm in the eyes of parents that your centre is doing all it can to provide its children with maximum social, educational and personal value and support.
An Exceeding rating is the gold standard for childcare. It’s the highest rating childcare centres can receive (without going through extra assessments) from the department, and is only held by 24% of childcare centres.
However, centres using OWNA have an exceeding rate of 37%! They do it by adopting the tools in our platform that makes NQS compliance easier, more efficient and more transparent for assessors.
Exceeding Rating Childcare App
Exceeding is easier with OWNA
Here at OWNA, we’re proud to produce top-quality solutions to some of the most fundamental challenges faced by childcare centres staff, management and parents on a day to day basis. For centre management, our app completely revolutionises the process of keeping on top of staff attendance and business operations, as well as making it easier than ever for centres to ensure that they’re adhering to all of the many and varied statutory requirements and regulations such as record keeping and data back-up and storage, as well as Meeting & Exceeding the National Quality Standards (NQS) set out by ACECQA.
Staff at your centre will also appreciate the many ways in which the new app will make their lives easier, and help them to do their jobs with maximum efficiency and minimum hassle. With the help of the software, they’ll be able to easily produce the correct documentation for children’s learning, enhance parent engagement, write up your Quality Improvement Plan (QIP), and so much more. Everything you need to meet every Standard, Element & Quality Area is inside OWNA. Want to put us to the test? Download the full guide to the Improving Your NQS Rating with OWNA.
But it isn’t just the centre that will benefit: parents too can load the app onto their smartphones and tablets in order to enjoy improved communication with the centre. As well as being able to quickly and easily contact staff, leave feedback and check the event calendar, parents will also be able to rest assured that they’ll never again have to worry about forgetting to check their child’s information sheet when they pick them up – as they’ll simply be able to load up all relevant date (such as feeding and sleeping times) on their device when they get home.
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Improve Your NQS Rating by Utilising App Customisation
There are various different apps available on the market which are designed to help with the successful running of a highly rated childcare centre, but the OWNA approach is centred around a thorough understanding of the fact that each and every centre is slightly different, and faces slightly different challenges each day.
As a result, our app is developed with customisation at its core. With drag-and-drop documentation, policies & procedures embedded into the app, and fully customisable documentation, we put the power in the hands of childcare professionals who know the needs of their centre, staff, parents and – most of all – children.
Fill out the form on our website, and you could have an your new app up and running before you know it!
Our Childcare App does it all and will make a major difference to your centre. From childcare documentation, educator management & CCS to application assistance and other resources. Get in touch with us today!
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All-In-One Childcare Management
At the single-centre level, Directors, Managers, Providers and Leaders can have full control over what happens. Manage every aspect of your early childhood service, and get alerts when something needs to get done.
Staff Management
Manage rostering, timesheets, communication & reflections.
Documentation
Document children's learning and demonstrate the planning cycle with ease.
Compliance
Manage ratios, NQF compliance, and health & safety.
Family Engagement
Communicate with families and get crucial feedback via the parent app.
Enterprise Childcare Management
For larger, multi-site operators, OWNA HQ is your central place for managing all of your services. Get full transparency across your network for true enterprise childcare management.
Multi-Site Compliance
Easily see how all of your centres are complying, and fix issues fast.
Enrolments
Manage enquiries, waitlist and enrolments at scale to support your business' growth.
Bulk Invoice & BIlling
Save hours by billing families across your services in OWNA HQ.
Multi-Site Reporting
Get advanced reporting across all of your centres to maximise quality, occupancy & more.
Manage payroll from your CCMS.
Stop juggling multiple apps to manage rostering, timesheets, onboarding & payroll. Do it all from your childcare software with OWNA HR & Payroll.
Recruitment Tracking
Manage jobs, applicants & interviews with the recruitment tracker (with SEEK integration).
HR Management
Issue contracts, manage leave and store important employee documents.
Payroll
Seamlessly integrate with OWNA timesheets to efficiently run payroll from within OWNA HQ.
Reporting
Stay in the know with in-depth reporting across all aspects of HR & Payroll.
Let OWNA manage your accounts for you.
Our team of CCS & family accounts experts can take care of your admin, so you can focus on your centres.
Invoicing & Billing
We'll ensure invoices and payments are submitted on time.
Customer Support
We will support families with their own accounts helpdesk.
CCS
We'll look after CCS enrolments & session reports.
Family Accounts
We'll create, manage and close family accounts for you.
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- Curriculum Planning
- Compliance Management
- Attendances
- Parent App
- Preschool Funding & Reporting
- Rostering & Timesheets
- Bookings & Enrolments
Most Popular
Premium
Best for early learning centres, OSHC services & multi-site providers.
from$99/mth
Everything from FREE, plus:
- CCS, Billing & Payments
- Financial Reporting
- Email Campaigns
- Multi-Centre Management
- OWNA HQ
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
- OWNA HR & Payroll ($8 per employee/mth)
Enterprise
Best for 25+ centre operators
Contact for Pricing
Everything from Premium, plus:
- Custom Integration (API)
- Enterprise CRM (Coming Soon)
Free Childcare Resources
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