Childcare Leadership Alliance

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Everything you need to lead your team, support your educators and strengthen your service. Practical HR tools, frameworks and guides built for early childhood leaders.

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HR Fundamentals

Core HR principles, compliance obligations and the building blocks every early childhood service needs in place.

Recruitment

Attract and hire the right educators. Job ads, interview frameworks, reference checks and offer letters for early childhood roles.

Onboarding

Set new educators up for success from their first day. Checklists, schedules and induction frameworks for your service.

Probationary Periods

Run the first six months with structure. Week 1, Month 3 and Month 6 check-ins, review scripts, and confirmation, extension or termination letters built in.

Team Management

Run better one-on-ones, audit your team rhythms, set development goals and build full 70/20/10 development plans that connect each educator's growth to outcomes for children.

Giving Effective Feedback

Plan the feedback conversation before you walk in. COIN model and Radical Candor, translated for how an educator hears feedback in an early learning service.

Performance Reviews

Set quarterly goals with OKRs, then run reviews every six months (quarterly if you can). Nothing in the review should be a surprise, just the conversation coming together on paper.

Pay Reviews

Get pay right so it is not an issue. Run the five-step review against the Children's Services Award or Teachers Award, link the decision to the percentage of goals achieved, and draft a pay change letter plus a team-facing pay and benefits statement.

Creating Culture

Culture is what your team actually does, not what you say. Run a culture design session that lands on behaviours you can see in the room, then turn the output into a guidebook educators read in their first week and the whole team returns to.

Policies and Compliance

Stay compliant and protected. Policy frameworks, NES guides and workplace legislation summaries for early childhood services.

Employee Exits

Manage departures professionally and compliantly. Resignation processes, exit interviews and final pay guides.

HR Leadership Training

Scenario based training modules and workshop resources designed to build confident, capable Service Managers.

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