Swan Hill Early Learning

NQS ratings

Issued Mar 2026

• OverallWorking Towards NQS
• QA1 Educational program and practiceMeeting NQS
• QA2 Children's health and safetyWorking Towards NQS
• QA3 Physical environmentMeeting NQS
• QA4 Staffing arrangementsMeeting NQS
• QA5 Relationships with childrenMeeting NQS
• QA6 Collaborative partnershipsMeeting NQS
• QA7 Governance and leadershipWorking Towards NQS

Previous overall rating: Working Towards NQS (May 2023)

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

The approved provider must engage with an Early Childhood Teacher for the purposes of developing and implementing the education program being delivered to children being educated and cared for at this service. The approved provider must take reasonable steps to recruit an early childhood teacher during the waiver period. The waiver for regulation 131 applies to a maximum of ten and a half hours per week. The approved provider must develop a transition plan detailing the actions being, and to be, undertaken in order to assist the service to ensure that they meet early childhood teacher requirements prescribed by regulation 131. The plan is to be submitted to the Regulatory Authority within 60 days, and reasonable steps must be taken to ensure that the actions outlined in the transitional plan are carried out. The approved provider must notify the Regulatory Authority within 14 days if the waiver is no longer required.