KindiCare Excellence Awards 2022

The KindiCare Excellence Awards celebrate the top performing early childhood education and care centres right across Australia.

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2022 Award Winners

The KindiCare Excellence Awards

Recognising the top performing early childhood education and care centres nationally.

The KindiCare Excellence Awards were established in 2021, to recognise and celebrate the outstanding early childhood education and care services delivered around Australia that support the early learning, growth and development of our children. Early childhood education and care is hugely important in supporting a better future for our children and all Australians. Essex Heights Juniors took out the top award nationally from all the state and territory finalists, achieving a perfect 10.0 KindiCare Rating, only the second time any of the 16,970 early childhood education and care services on the KindiCare App have achieved a perfect score. All winners in the 2022 KindiCare Excellence Awards have one thing in common; they are delivering outstanding early childhood education and care services, thanks to the hard work of childcare providers, their educators and staff in the communities that they serve. This year KindiCare introduced an Outstanding category. An additional 320 centres have been recognised as the top 2% of centres who each have a KindiCare Rating of 9.5 and above and have been rated as having an Outstanding KindiCare Rating. In addition to the national winner, and 13 state and territory winners, there were a total of 1,805 early childhood education and care centres recognised in this year’s awards as having achieved an Excellent KindiCare Rating of 9.0 or higher. In recognition of achieving an Excellent KindiCare Rating in the 2022 awards, all centres and services that achieved an Outstanding KindiCare Rating or Excellent KindiCare Rating have been sent a certificate to mark their contribution to early learning as well as a badge to display at their centre to highlight to families that the centre is one of less than 10% nationally who achieved this rating.
Information correct as at July 1 2022

State & Territory Winners

KindiCare Excellence Awards State & Territory Winners 2022

Regional Winners

KindiCare Excellence Awards Regional Winners 2022

About the KindiCare Excellence Awards

About the KindiCare Excellence Awards

How the KindiCare Excellence Award winners and finalists are determined

Excellence in early childhood education and care is so important to our children’s development and growth, and those centres that truly excel in the early learning services they provide should be celebrated! Rather than being judged by early childhood education and care industry peers, the KindiCare Excellence Awards are determined by KindiCare primarily using the KindiCare Rating. Over 300,000 data points from the KindiCare App and KindiCare.com are used by the KindiCare Rating algorithm to determine a rating for each early childhood education and care service registered in Australia. These data points included over 125,000 reviews from families, over 25,000 current and historical ACECQA ratings under the National Quality Framework, including 15,400 current ACECQA ratings, as well as other information and data held by KindiCare regarding early learning services. In addition to the national winner, and 13 state and territory winners, there were a total of 1,805 early childhood education and care centres recognised in this year’s awards as having achieved an Excellent KindiCare Rating of 9.0 or higher. An additional 320 centres have been recognised as the top 2% of centres who each have a KindiCare Rating of 9.5 and above, and have been rated as having an Outstanding KindiCare Rating. Each and every one of these centres received a formal acknowledgement from KindiCare of their rating which includes a decal to display at their centre to let families know it’s a top-rated centre.
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What is the KindiCare Rating

The KindiCare Rating is the only rating in the early childhood education and care sector to combine data about a centre, feedback and reviews from families and government audits under the National Quality Framework together in one simple and easy to understand assessment of a childcare centre’s performance. The KindiCare Rating makes it easy for families, childcare providers, government and other industry stakeholders and participants to understand how individual early childhood education and care services compare nationally as well as in their local markets, suburbs and regions.
Read more about the KindiCare Rating.
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What benefits do KindiCare Excellence Awards winners receive?

The national winner and each of the state, territory and regional winners receive an award from KindiCare to be placed in their centre as recognition of their achievement of being the top performing early childhood education and care service nationally or in the relevant state or territory. Every centre recognised in this year’s awards as having achieved a KindiCare Rating of 9.0 or higher gets:
  • A physical KindiCare Rated Outstanding or KindiCare Rated Excellent badge to display on a window or door at their winning centre.
  • A KindiCare Rated Outstanding or KindiCare Rated Excellent digital badge to use on websites, brochures, email campaigns and display advertising.
  • A promotional kit to help you publicise your centre’s achievement.
All winners will receive the congratulations letter and KindiCare Rated Outstanding or KindiCare Rated Excellent badge in the mail. Centres will also receive email over the next few weeks, with how to access the digital version the KindiCare Excellent Rated Badge. Look out for this email to instantly download and add the KindiCare Excellence award badge to your website, or alternatively, use the links below to access your digital badge.
Read more about the KindiCare Rating.
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If you received an awards pack in the mail from KindiCare for achieving an Outstanding Rating or Excellent Rating in the 2022 awards, you can get your digital tile by logging into KindiCare for Childcare Providers and downloading your badge from resources.

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If you received an awards pack in the mail from KindiCare for achieving an Outstanding or Excellent Ratings in the 2022 awards, but don't have a provider user account, simply claim your centre on KindiCare for free.

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