Web design for child care centres
Families compare centres on Starting Blocks and Google before they ring anyone, usually on a phone, usually after the children are in bed. Your website has to pick up from there: answer the practical questions plainly, then make the enquiry easy enough that a tired parent actually finishes it.
Service approval and advertising
The Education and Care Services National Law limits advertising a service before approval, so a new centre page goes live once approval is granted.
Regulation 172 fee notice
Under the National Regulations, families are owed at least 14 days' written notice before fees change, so the fees page moves in step with it.
NQS rating logo terms
ACECQA ties the logo to one rated service and its current rating, so the badge sits in editable content rather than hard-coded in the theme.
What child care centres need from a website
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Families compare you before they call
For CCS-approved services, your fees, vacancies and NQS rating already sit on Starting Blocks next to every other centre in the suburb, along with regulatory information about the service. By the time a family reaches your own site they have the comparison data and want the things it cannot show them, which is the rooms, the routine and the people.
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Publishing images of children safely
The National Model Code and your own image and digital technologies policy govern which photos can be taken and where they can be used, and a family can withdraw consent at any time. A gallery that needs a developer to edit turns a simple request from a parent into a compliance problem.
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The enquiry to enrolment gap
A family sends the same enquiry to several centres in one evening, and the reply that lands first usually gets the tour. The form has to collect enough to be useful, such as date of birth, days wanted and start month, without becoming a full enrolment form that nobody finishes on a phone.
What we build for child care centres
Enquiry, tour and waitlist forms
One form that captures the child's date of birth, days wanted and preferred start month, requests a tour time, routes to whoever handles enquiries and sends the family an acknowledgement, built to be finished one-handed on a phone.
A page for every room
Nursery through to the kindergarten room, each with its age range, daily rhythm and program, written as plain structured text that screen readers and translation tools handle properly for the families who need them.
Fees, sessions and subsidy page
A page your team can edit that sets out session types and what is included, and explains in plain terms how Child Care Subsidy and the 3 Day Guarantee affect what a family actually pays.
Photo galleries with consent controls
Custom WordPress galleries where a single action removes an image from every page it appears on, so a withdrawal of consent can be actioned as soon as it arrives.
Centre pages for multi-site groups
One WordPress site with a page per centre, each with its own hours, contact, vacancies, kindergarten program and enquiry form, so a service manager updates their centre without touching anyone else's.
Australian hosting and ongoing care
Hosting in Australia with updates, backups, monitoring, security patching and the small changes that keep coming, such as new vacancies, an updated NQS rating or a fee change at the start of the year.
Common questions
Can we show our NQS rating on our website?
Yes. ACECQA makes NQS rating logos available to services through the national registers and using them is voluntary, but under the National Law it is an offence to advertise or represent a rating your service does not hold, so what appears on the site has to match the rating you currently hold. We set the rating up as something your team can change rather than an image baked into the design, so it can be updated as soon as a reassessment comes through.
Can we put photos of the children on the site?
Only where your consent records cover publishing to a public website, and only in line with your service's image and digital technologies policy and the National Model Code for taking images and videos in early childhood education and care. Consent can also be withdrawn, so we build galleries that let you pull an image from the whole site in one action. Some centres keep the public site to environments, activities and educators, and keep photos of children inside the parent app.
Should we publish our fees, or keep them to the tour?
For CCS-approved services the session fees are already reported and shown on Starting Blocks, so leaving them off your own site usually just sends the family back to the comparison listing. We build the fee page so your team can update session fees and explain the gap fee in your own words, including what the 3 Day Guarantee changed for families from January 2026. What we will not do is publish a number the design cannot easily change, because that is the one your enrolment team ends up walking back.