Online training for early childhood educators that keeps up with the Regulations
Self-paced professional development for Australian ECEC services. Policy, practice and leadership courses, plus a short course every fortnight on what has just changed. Every completion recorded against the educator.
The course catalogue
Training for every role in your service
Three streams covering what your team is required to know, how to do the work well, and how to lead the people doing it. Plus the one we are uniquely positioned to offer: a fortnightly course rounding up everything that has changed across the sector. All self-paced and online, completed on shift or at home.
Every role · Regulation 168
Policy in Practice
A course for each of the policies you're required to hold: what the policy requires, the procedures underneath it, and who is responsible for what. Child Protection, Sleep and Rest, Anaphylaxis Management, Incident and Emergency, and the rest of the Regulation 168 set. Used on commencement, at induction and as a refresher course.
Educators
Practice Essentials
Not what the policy says, but how to do the work well. Child development birth to five, supporting a child who has experienced trauma, supervision and positioning, writing observations worth reading. Longer, modular courses taken to build capability rather than to tick a box.
Room leaders, nominated supervisors & directors
Leading your Team
The people side of running a service. Giving and receiving feedback, conflict resolution, difficult conversations with families, mentoring and coaching educators, and holding a team together through a tough situation.
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Every role · Every fortnight
Compliance Updates
The three streams above are the training your team needs. This is the one that keeps it true. Every fortnight our compliance team turns everything that has moved across the sector (amended regulations, updated policies and procedures, revised guidance) into one five-minute course: what changed, why it matters, and what your educators do differently from tomorrow morning. Your team stays across the whole picture in five minutes a fortnight, instead of reading every document themselves.
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Written by our compliance team
The same ECTs, former directors and ex-ACECQA staff who update your policies.
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Five minutes a fortnight
The whole sector, summarised, and short enough to be done properly on shift.
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You can see who's done it
Completion recorded against each educator. No reminder emails, no spreadsheet.
Inside a Compliance Update
How we turn a regulation change into staff training
Every Compliance Update follows the same five-part shape, so your team knows exactly what they're getting before they press play, and nobody has to read a fortnight of documents to find the paragraphs that moved.
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What changed
Everything that moved across the fortnight, in plain language: regulations, policies, procedures and guidance.
2
Why it matters
The reasoning behind each change, so it lands as sense rather than another rule.
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What to do differently
The practical changes, described as something an educator does tomorrow morning.
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The risk if ignored
What's at stake for children, for the team and for the service if practice doesn't move, stated honestly.
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Acknowledge it
Each educator confirms they've completed it, and their record updates.
What's included with TrainingDesk
Everything, for your whole team
One subscription per service. No per-course charges, no separate logins, nothing to install.
The full catalogue
Every Policy in Practice course, all of Practice Essentials, and all of Leading your Team.
A Compliance Update every fortnight
Everything that has changed across the sector, in one five-minute course for the whole team.
15 seats, and the records
Fifteen educators included, extra seats added as you need them, and completion recorded against every one of them.
Running more than one service? Head Office sees training completion across every site alongside its policy and QIP oversight, so you can tell at a glance which services are across a change.
$770 a year
Or $250 a quarter. All prices include GST.
Standalone FDC & individual educators
$495 a year, or $155 a quarter
For a family day care educator who isn't part of a scheme.
Already with PolicyDesk
You have already used it
Ten Policy in Practice courses come with every PolicyDesk membership. TrainingDesk is the rest of them, the leadership and practice catalogue, and the fortnightly updates.
Administration of First Aid
Behaviour Guidance
Excursion and Incursion
Governance
Incident, Injury, Trauma and Illness
Medical Conditions
Nutrition and Food Safety
Responsible Person
Sleep and Rest
Sun Safe
The Compliance Engine
Where a policy update becomes trained practice
TrainingDesk works on its own, and it works harder alongside the rest. Regulation 170 asks the approved provider to take reasonable steps to ensure policies are followed, and an updated document nobody has been trained on doesn't get you there. This is where TrainingDesk sits in the wider engine.
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Starts the engine
PolicyDesk
When the law changes, we update the master policy. Your linked documents flag, you accept the change into your own version, and your library is current again without you chasing it.
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what changed, and what it means
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Closes the engine
TrainingDesk
A current policy nobody has read isn't compliance. The change becomes a short course your team completes on shift, and each educator's record updates as they go.
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who's across it, and when
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Evidences the engine
QIPDesk
Your QIP is where you measure whether the policy is actually working in the rooms, and where what you find becomes the improvements that drive your next review.
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back into the next policy review
what's really happening on the floor, feeding the next policy review
PolicyDesk keeps you current, TrainingDesk makes it stick with your team, and QIPDesk proves it for assessment. Each one feeds the next, and the last one feeds the first.
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