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HR Support & WHS Advice for Childcare Centres
Providing personalised HR and WHS advice 24/7 to your childcare business
Childcare Industry Challenges in HR & WHS
Running a childcare service means navigating strict HR and WHS obligations, from managing educator qualifications to keeping up with changing safety requirements, documentation standards, and compliance rules. With Peninsula’s 24/7 HR and WHS advice, you get clear guidance whenever issues arise, helping you protect your centre, support your team, and maintain a safe environment for children
Common issues in the childcare industry
Modern award rate
Get expert advice on the latest Modern Award or enterprise agreement to ensure your employees are paid correctly.
Employee Management
Personalised advice to help you with performance management, disciplinary action and redundancies or other employee issues.
Hiring and onboarding
The right onboarding process offers support, training, and resources so that new employees are confident in their role.
Supporting staff wellbeing
Help your employees manage their mental wellbeing with access to qualified counsellors through our Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
Creating employee handbooks
We can tailor an employee handbook to your business needs, outlining to new and existing employees your culture and expected conduct.
Health and safety
Our team can advise on workplace risks such as slips, trips, and falls, muscle strain from lifting children or moving desks.
Working in childcare is fun and highly rewarding. Our proactive approach to HR and WHS allows our team to fully assess and deliver tailored solutions for these and many other challenges your childcare business can face. Our team of experts can help you save time and money. Allowing you and your team to focus on providing the highest level of care.
Enhancing Health and Safety in childcare
Creating a safe environment for the children and employees is paramount in childcare.
Some common health and safety risks include:
- Slips, trips and falls
- Muscle strain from lifting and moving desks and tables
- Musculoskeletal risks: Bending, crouching, kneeling, twisting, and sitting on the floor to interact with children.
- Regular manual tasks: Carrying children and regularly bending to pick up toys.
- Bullying and harassment.
- Regular illness: Exposure to colds, flu, and viruses from close contact with sick children.
Peninsula can help identify workplace hazards to minimise risks to your employees, visitors and children through:
- SafeCheck: A comprehensive on-site workplace risk assessment by a Peninsula WHS expert.
- Creating or updating Health and Safety policies, incident processes and procedures, and other critical documentation.
- Health and Safety software to help with incident reporting.
- An Employee Assistance Program (EAP) to help employees manage stress and mental health challenges.
Enhancing Health and Safety in childcare
Expert HR and WHS advice tailored to the needs of your childcare business
Unlimited 24/7 advice line
As a Peninsula client you can always call our local expert team and feel secure knowing you’re getting the right advice for your business.
Protecting your business
Exclusive to Peninsula clients, Peninsula Protect can cover settlement and legal fees if an employment related or HSW claim is lodged against your business.
Smart technology
Smart software with unlimited cloud-based storage helps keep accurate records of annual, sick or other leave and streamlines admin tasks.
If you don't have the internal resources available to create or update your business-critical documentation to ensure your business remains compliant, Peninsula's experienced HR and WHS advice team can help develop employee contracts, handbooks, manuals and policies for you. We can also provide advice on wages for full-time, part-time, or casual employees and contractors, overtime, public holiday or award rates. Our expert team have got you covered.
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HR in childcare covers recruiting qualified educators, managing staff performance, handling conduct issues, maintaining documentation, and meeting Award and employment law requirements.
Strong HR policies set clear expectations for staff behaviour, performance, communication, and safety. They help centres manage issues consistently, reduce risk, and ensure decisions align with employment laws and childcare regulations.
Peninsula provides 24/7 guidance on the Children’s Services Award, contracts, documentation, staff management, and HR processes. Our advisers help you apply the correct steps so your centre achieves compliance and stay protected from legal risks.
Childcare providers must identify hazards, manage risks, maintain safe facilities, follow hygiene and supervision rules, and meet all WHS legislation to protect children, staff, and visitors.
Peninsula assists with risk assessments, incident reporting procedures, safety documentation review, and practical WHS advice. We help centres identify potential hazards so they can be removed and the centre can achieve compliance.
