WELLINGTON Shire Council is rolling out a new Kindergarten Central Registration Service to streamline the kindergarten registration process for parents and carers throughout the municipality.
Council will manage the new Wellington Kindergarten Central Registration Service on behalf of participating kindergartens throughout Wellington Shire.
This new service will support all eligible children to access a kindergarten place, by providing parents and carers with a simplified registration process for state-government funded kindergarten.
The Kindergarten Central Registration Service will make registering children for kindergarten quick and easy, ensuring the allocation of kindergarten places is always fair and transparent for all families across the Wellington region.
Registrations for children to attend three or four-year-old kindergarten will be open from May 1 to June 30 each year.
While registrations are closed, families are encouraged to submit an online expression of interest form via council’s website.
Families can expect to be notified the year before their child is due to start three or four-year-old kindergarten.
Expressions of interest are free to complete and can be submitted any time after a child is born. You do not need to wait until your child is kindergarten age to complete a form.
Expressions of Interest can be made any time at www.wellington.vic.gov.au/community/early-years
Kindergarten places are allocated in accordance with criteria mandated by the Department of Education, and agreed to by participating kindergarten providers.
Following successful registration, families will be advised of allocation of a kindergarten place.
Wellington Shire Council Mayor, Ian Bye, said that kindergarten was one of the most important experiences for all young children.
“I am proud of this work and am thrilled to be announcing that the new Wellington Kindergarten Central Registration Service is now available for families to record their interest in kindergarten for 2024 and beyond,” Cr Bye said.
“We have been hearing from the community for quite some time how cumbersome the previous process was, and I am confident that this new service will be welcomed by local families, and ease the uncertainty that came with kindergarten registrations in previous years.”
Funded three and four-year-old kindergarten is provided by the state government, and the Wellington municipality has various services available to local families.
Wellington Shire Council does not manage or coordinate kindergarten programs.
In Wellington Shire, kindergarten services are delivered by private and community-based committees of management and early years managers. This new process is in place to improve the current registration process for parents and carers of children who are entering kindergarten in 2024 and beyond.
