For early learning services in Victoria
Tell us what matters at your centre. Your feedback will help us support children’s safety, make photo day easier for your team and create a better experience for families.
Ten questions · about 2 minutes
5 tips for better photos in early learning, with before-and-after examples — so the photos your educators take for families look better straight away. A4, ready to print.
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Professional photos and a short video of your own service, for your website, enrolment tours and social media. Yours to keep and use anywhere. Every centre that answers goes into the draw.
Three questions is enough to enter. Closes 5pm Thursday 29 October 2026. Drawn 11am on Friday 30 October 2026. Winners published from after the draw. Conditions of entry.
Thank you to every centre that took part. The three winners are drawn at 11am on Friday 30 October 2026 and named on our winners page after the draw.
Come back then to answer the survey and put your centre in the draw.
Thank you — your answers are in. That is everything we needed.
We already had an entry from your centre, so this one has been added to it. Each centre has one entry in the draw.
5 tips for better photos in early learning, with before-and-after examples. A4, ready to print.
Childcare photography compliance checklist
Ten questions every early learning service should ask. Tick them off as you go — we will keep score. A good photographer can answer all ten in writing, before the day.
| 1 | Does every person who will attend your centre hold a current Working with Children Check, and will you receive their names and numbers before the day? | |
| 2 | Has every photographer and assistant completed child safety training, such as GECCKO Foundations of Child Safety, Courses 1 and 2, and can they show the certificates? | |
| 3 | Do they hold public liability insurance of at least $10 million, and will they send a current certificate of currency? | |
| 4 | Do they have a written Child Safe Policy and Code of Conduct, and a written process for raising a concern, that you can keep on file? | |
| 5 | Is their team never alone with a child, always working within sight of your educators? | |
| 6 | Do they photograph children only on business-owned cameras and devices, never a personal phone? | |
| 7 | Can they tell you in writing who sees your children's images, where they are stored, how long they are kept, and how a family can have them deleted? | |
| 8 | Are galleries private, so each family sees only their own child's portraits and their room's group photo, through their own access code, and nothing is posted publicly without consent? | |
| 9 | Do they have a written consent process covering both individual portraits and class or group photos, including a clear way for a family to opt out? | |
| 10 | Are they a member of Early Learning Photographers Australia (ELPA), the industry body for child-safe early learning photography? Check at elpa.au/find-a-photographer |
One A4 page for your compliance folder, with a Yes / No box beside every question. Read what changed this year →
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