Our role

We are the state government authority that regulates early childhood services and schools. This work is done to ensure high-quality education services and high standards of competence and conduct by providers.

Our main functions are:

• approving early childhood services
• assessing and rating early childhood services
• educating about compliance with the law
• taking action if providers are not complying with the law
• registering schools
• reviewing the registration of schools.

For information about how we regulate early childhood services, see our Early childhood services regulatory and quality assurance framework.