Stay in ratio. Every shift, every room.
Ratio compliance means every vacancy hits immediately. Hire qualified educators fast and keep the ones you have.
Assessely is a smart HR platform for Australian childcare businesses that combines hiring assessments, reference checks with fraud detection, and employee retention surveys in one place.
THE CHALLENGE
The hiring and retention challenges childcare businesses face every day.
Staff turnover threatens your ratios and your NQS rating
Losing one educator can push an entire room out of ratio. Recruitment in early childhood is slow, and every week without a replacement puts pressure on the whole team. Your next ACECQA visit notices.
Compliance obligations are non-negotiable
Working with Children Checks, first aid certificates, anaphylaxis training, and early childhood qualifications must be verified before anyone steps into a room. Manual tracking creates gaps.
Good educators are hard to find and harder to keep
The sector competes for a small pool of qualified staff. Centres that do not actively invest in engagement lose their best people to competitors, big providers, or career changes.
THE SOLUTION
How Assessely solves it.
Educator-fit assessments
Go beyond qualifications. Assess patience, adaptability, and genuine passion for early childhood development.
Working with Children Check automation
WWCC verification built into every hire. No manual spreadsheet tracking. No expired checks slipping through.
Qualification and certificate verification
Certificate III, Diploma, ACECQA-approved teaching qualification, First Aid, anaphylaxis and asthma training. All confirmed and stored in one place before an educator starts.
Educator wellbeing surveys
Short, regular pulse checks designed for time-poor teams. Understand what your educators need before they start looking elsewhere.
eNPS across rooms and centres
Compare engagement between rooms, age groups, and locations. Find where support is needed most.
Exit interviews that reveal real reasons
Find out whether departures are about pay, workload, leadership, or career progression. Then act on the pattern.
IN THEIR WORDS
What childcare teams say.
Real moments from people using Assessely in small and medium-sized businesses today.
Had an educator turn up to work one Monday whose WWCC had expired the previous Friday. Nobody noticed. After that we moved everything onto this and we get reminders 60 days out. Hasn't happened again.
Aisha N.
Operations Manager, early learning centre group
Ballarat, VIC
Toddlers room pulse said split shifts were the issue. Sorted the roster. Same room is now our highest engagement. Honest data we wouldn't have got any other way.
Emma S.
Centre Director, long day care centre
Adelaide
Half compliance, half judgement. This handles the compliance half so I can spend my time on the judgement half.
Nina K.
Centre Manager, long day care provider
Brisbane
HOW IT WORKS
Up and running in minutes.
Hire educators who belong in early childhood
Assessments and compliance checks that confirm both capability and character.
Keep your team engaged between NQS visits
Regular surveys that track educator wellbeing, not just once-a-year satisfaction.
Understand why educators leave your centre
Exit interviews that turn individual departures into actionable retention insights.
QUESTIONS
Frequently asked questions.
Quick answers for childcare teams considering Assessely.
Yes. WWCC, First Aid, anaphylaxis, asthma, child protection training, and qualifications are tracked per educator with expiry reminders 60 days out. Educators who expire are flagged immediately so nobody works uncleared.
Element 4.2 (continuity of staff) and Element 7.2 (effective leadership) both rely on engagement and retention data you can show evidence of. Pulse surveys, eNPS by room, and exit interview themes give you the evidence base ACECQA reviewers ask for.
Assessely runs on AWS with encryption at rest and in transit. Important for ACECQA-approved providers and any centre subject to state privacy obligations.
Basic is $99 a month, Premium with AI features is $199 a month. Reference checks $1 per referee, compliance and WWCC checks $1 each. A single centre running normal hiring sits comfortably under $200 a month.
Yes. Surveys are mobile-first and most educators complete them in under four minutes during nap time or a break. Response rates are typically double what centre directors get from annual paper surveys.
Most centres are live in their first week. Migrating educator compliance records from spreadsheets takes an afternoon with our team helping. The system pays for itself the first time it catches an expiring WWCC before NQS visits.
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