Cottage Academy Early Learning Clontarf

NQS ratings

Issued May 2025

• OverallMeeting NQS
• QA1 Educational program and practiceMeeting NQS
• QA2 Children's health and safetyMeeting NQS
• QA3 Physical environmentMeeting NQS
• QA4 Staffing arrangementsMeeting NQS
• QA5 Relationships with childrenMeeting NQS
• QA6 Collaborative partnershipsMeeting NQS
• QA7 Governance and leadershipMeeting NQS

Previous overall rating: Working Towards NQS (May 2024)

Nature of care

• Long day care: Yes
• Preschool / kindergarten (part of a school): No
• Preschool / kindergarten (stand alone): No
• Outside school hours care (after school): No
• Outside school hours care (before school): No
• Outside school hours care (vacation care): No
• Other: No

Hours

Approval conditions

This service is approved to provide education and care to children from birth up to and including over preschool age. The service is not approved to provide education and care to school children. The Approved Provider must ensure that the mirrors installed at the service are constantly maintained and operational. This is to ensure the facilitation of adequate supervision of children at all times they are being educated and cared for at the service, having regard to the need to maintain the rights and dignity of the children as required under regulation 115 of the Education and Care Services National Regulations. It is a condition of the service waiver that the Approved Provider must ensure that an adequate amount of healthy ‘live’ plants in a variety of species and sizes is maintained at all times in the alternative space of the premises, ensuring children are afforded opportunities to explore and experience the features of a natural environment as is required under regulation 113 of the Education and Care Services National Regulations if that space was outdoor space. It is a condition of the service wavier that the Approved Provider must utilise 133.39m² of alternative space to satisfy part of the unencumbered outdoor space requirements.