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ChildcareLink

Name: ChildcareLink
Address: Suite 101/15 Help Street, Sydney, NSW, 2067, AU
Telephone: +61290524987

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We assist investors, operators and landlords in the buying, selling, leasing, and developing of childcare centres. Linking Care with Trust.

23/09/2026

"If you ever think about selling, talk to me first." If your centre director has said that to you, you're already further into a transaction than you think.

Selling to the person who runs your centre can be the best exit available — but it's a different deal shape, not a friendlier version of a normal one. The buyer already knows everything your confidentiality agreement exists to protect, the funding almost always has to come partly from you, and a below-market price can be taxed as though it were a market-value one anyway.

Have you thought about who would take over your centre if you stepped back? 👇

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⚠️ General information only. Not financial advice.

Selling your childcare centre to the director who already runs it changes the tax, the regulator's test and every protection in your contract. What vendors need to settle first.

21/09/2026

Quick question for centre owners: when you promoted someone to nominated supervisor, when was the notice to the regulator due?

If you said "within 14 days", that's the exception, not the rule. Section 56 wants it at least seven days BEFORE they start. It's the only deadline on the whole notification list that runs backwards — and from February this year the consequences of getting these wrong attach to named people, not just to the company.

Which of the four roles does your centre find hardest to keep current? 👇

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Approved provider, person with management or control, nominated supervisor, responsible person — who carries which obligation, and what a sale or a promotion changes.

14/09/2026

Did you know a childcare service can lawfully operate outside a staffing ratio? About one in twenty-three currently does — 4.3% of Australia's 18,197 approved services held a staffing waiver at 1 July 2026, on ACECQA's own numbers.

There are two instruments, they are not interchangeable, and the difference shows up at the worst moment: a service waiver gives you 14 days' notice if it's revoked, and a temporary waiver gives you none. We've written up the full mechanism — what can be waived, what the application has to prove, and the one document a buyer should always ask for.

If you inherited a centre with a waiver on it, would you have known where to look?

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A staffing waiver lets a childcare service lawfully operate outside a ratio or qualification requirement. Here is what can be waived, what it costs, and what a live waiver tells a buyer.

12/09/2026

Fees were direct-debited on the Monday. The centre changed hands on the Thursday. Who owns the rest of that week's money?

If nobody wrote it down before completion, the answer is: whoever happened to be holding it. That's what a completion adjustment statement is for — and in a childcare centre there are four lines a standard business precedent won't cover.

Sellers — did anyone walk you through your adjustment statement line by line before you signed?

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Settlement moves the price, not the money. What gets adjusted on a childcare sale, how retentions and completion accounts work, and the three clocks that outlive the deal.

09/09/2026

Two consents to sell an independent childcare centre. Three to sell a franchised one — and the third is the one people find out about late.

The franchisor's consent has a rule worth knowing: no written refusal within 42 days of a complete request, and consent is deemed given. The catch is in the word "complete" — the clock restarts every time the franchisor reasonably asks for more information.

Franchised owners — has your brand ever told you what it would charge on a transfer?

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A franchised childcare sale needs three consents, not one. The franchisor's is the only one with a 42-day deemed-consent clock — and it runs in the vendor's favour.

07/09/2026

Quick test for centre owners: can you produce a document that says what award level each of your educators is on?

Most can't — and it isn't sloppiness. The Children's Services Award requires you to classify every employee, but nothing requires you to record the classification or tell the employee. Meanwhile 36 old rates collapsed into eight new levels on 1 March 2026, and two of those levels move on an anniversary rather than a qualification.

When did you last check a rate against the level it is meant to come from?

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An eight-level structure replaced the Children's Services Award's old classifications and 36 minimum rates on 1 March 2026 — what every operator now has to check.

01/09/2026

Own two or more childcare centres? Here's a quick test of your monthly reporting.

Can you tell, from the front page, how many staff hours moved between your centres last month? If not, at least two of your wage-cost lines are wrong — in opposite directions — and neither centre director knows it.

How many centres were you running before the spreadsheet stopped being enough?

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Which lines consolidate honestly across a childcare group and which must stay per-centre, how head-office cost allocation works, and the two lines that only exist once you own more than one service.

31/08/2026

You have just bought a childcare centre. Congratulations — and now open the filing cabinet.

Every enrolment agreement in it is a contract between a family and the previous owner. Every supplier account is in someone else's name. Your educators, though, transferred to you by law — along with their sick leave, their parental leave rights, and in most states their entire long service leave history, which cannot be contracted away.

We have mapped the first ninety days: what moved, what didn't, and which deadlines expired before you got the keys.

Which part of a handover has caught you out?

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What transfers to a childcare buyer at settlement and what doesn't — the Fair Work transfer-of-business rules, the National Law notices, the CCS re-approval, and the first monthly pack.

25/08/2026

Here is a question worth asking at your next staff meeting: after an incident, who at your centre tells the insurer?

Everyone knows the regulator gets 24 hours. Fewer know the insurance notification has a deadline too — your policy expiry date — and that a claim the insurer never heard about during the policy year can be a claim they never pay.

Does your incident form have a line for the insurer on it?

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One incident at a childcare centre starts three notification clocks — the regulator, the family and the insurer. Here they are on one timetable, with who owns each.

24/08/2026

Quick question for centre owners receiving the worker retention payment: who at your service is allowed to sign the annual declaration?

It has to be a person with management or control — not the bookkeeper who prepared the figures, and not your external accountant. Every centre we have watched scramble on this had the numbers ready early and the signatory unreachable on the day.

Do you know who your signatory is?

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The worker retention payment is a grant agreement, not a subsidy. Here are the declarations a childcare provider must sign, when they fall due, and the evidence behind them.

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