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[ Industry advisory · Childcare & education ]
Strategic advisory for childcare and early learning centre operators.
Childcare economics are tight and tightly regulated. Occupancy, educator-to-child ratios, Child Care Subsidy timing and wage cost discipline are the levers — and small movements compound across a centre or a group. We help operators see those numbers clearly.
[ What we hear, again and again ]
The pressures inside childcare & early learning centres.
These questions need the business’s information and circumstances to be understood. They are not, on their own, evidence of the cause or the right solution.
- 01Occupancy gaps eroding centre profitability week by week
- 02Wage cost and ratio compliance creating a hard floor under labour spend
- 03CCS funding timing and gap-fee recovery creating cashflow complexity
- 04Lease cost and centre footprint locked in against variable demand
- 05Multi-centre operators losing visibility on which centres actually contribute
[ How we work ]
What the accounting and advisory work can cover.
- 01
Centre-level profitability and occupancy tracked weekly and monthly
- 02
Wage cost, ratios and rostering reviewed against real attendance
- 03
CCS reconciliation, gap-fee recovery and family debt reviewed with the owner
- 04
Lease, capex and capacity decisions framed against real payback
- 05
Structure designed for multi-centre growth, acquisition or sale-readiness
[ The numbers that matter ]
Measures that help owners understand performance.
Not a long list — the handful of numbers that, watched consistently, change how the business is run.
01
Centre occupancy %
Utilised places vs licensed capacity, week by week
02
Wages as % of revenue
Against the hard floor set by ratios and award
03
Revenue per place
What each licensed place actually returns
04
Family debt and gap recovery
Gap fees and family debtors collected on time
05
EBITDA per centre
Centre-level contribution after all direct cost
These are possible review topics, not a standard calendar. We agree the work, reporting and meeting frequency for your business. Agreed actions have clear responsibilities and are followed up.
- 01
Occupancy, ratio cost and CCS funding reconciliation review
- 02
Fee, wage and centre-level profitability conversation
- 03
Tax, lease and structure planning
- 04
Long-term plan — additional centres, acquisition or sale-readiness
[ The honest line ]
Childcare operators who see occupancy, ratios and centre-level contribution clearly make better decisions about staff, sites and growth. We help build that visibility into the rhythm.
[ The next conversation ]
Run the centre on real occupancy economics.
Bring the messy stuff. The numbers, the pressures, the decisions you've been putting off. The first conversation is structured, candid and obligation-free.