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About us Goodstart is Australia’s largest provider of early learning and care. As a not-for-profit social enterprise, we exist purely to improve the lives of Australia’s children and their families. Goodstart was formed in 2009 thanks to a unique combination of private, public and leading community sector organisations — The Benevolent Society, the Brotherhood of St Laurence, Mission Australia and Social Ventures Australia. We deliver social impact on a national scale by offering evidence-informed early learning and care in hundreds of centres nationally, supporting families and influencing the broader community through our advocacy work, which aims to increase investment in the early years to ensure all children have access to quality early learning. Goodstart is a social enterprise with social purpose at its heart, but our head operates with business discipline to deliver healthy operating margins for continued investment in centres, people and programs to deliver on our vision and purpose. We operate 644 early learning centres in all states and territories of Australia, caring for 70,900 children from 59,500 families and employing 14,900 people. Our vision is for Australia’s children to have the best possible start in life. Our purpose is to ensure children have the learning, development and wellbeing outcomes they need for school and life. We're people with purpose Goodstart is a not-for-profit social enterprise, so we attract people who want to make a difference. We provide enhanced services and multi-skilled teams to meet a diverse range of learning needs. And we offer our people specialist training so they can help all children, including those with additional needs or facing disadvantage. Like to know more? Visit: goodstart.org.au

Navitas is one of the world’s largest education providers and has helped generations of learners transform their lives through education. As a leader in the global education sector, we create life-changing opportunities to learn by delivering an extensive range of educational services to over 60,000 aspirational learners at more than 90 colleges and campuses across our global network in 20 countries each year, powered by a diverse and talented group of 5,000+ employees. Over the last three decades, hundreds of thousands of learners from around the world have graduated from Navitas colleges, having experienced a teaching and learning environment that supports them to harness their talents and achieve their dreams.   As pioneers in the university pathway sector, our success is underpinned by our unparalleled international network, a peerless commitment to student experiences and outcomes, a track record of working in partnership with universities and industry, and a passion for discovering new technologies and models of teaching and learning that will improve education now and into the future. From pre-university and pathway programs to university, to English language, vocational training and undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, we have developed a reputation for integrity and reliability and the relationships we have developed with partners, governments and industries speak for themselves. We are passionate about learner outcomes, creating employment opportunities through lifelong learning and being a global leader in delivering better learning solutions.

Explore & Develop is a unique organisation in the early childhood and care sector in Australia. We are a group of individually owned and operated early childhood education and care services located across NSW and ACT. Our services are owned and operated by early childhood professionals who are passionate about giving children the best start in life. As a franchise organisation, families and employees enjoy the benefit of a locally-run service and a direct relationship with the Owner/Approved Provider – as well as the support of many decades of early childhood experience, professional training and resources from the group. We only welcome new owners to the group who demonstrate a sincere passion for the early childhood sector. All of our service owners work onsite in their services. Our franchise business model enables people with a passion to manage, develop and support a team of highly qualified educators to provide high quality early education and care services to children and families in their community. All of our franchisees are encouraged to create their own learning environments for children that are aligned with our values of Ethical, Collaboration and Excellence, and meet the specific needs of their local community. As part of the Explore & Develop group, our franchisees are supported by our highly experienced, professional management and operations teams who uphold and contribute to the values and philosophy of the business. They provide ongoing professional and personal development, training, support and guidance in all operational, legislation and procedural aspects of the business. Having the support of our team means that Explore & Develop franchisees are able to focus on guiding their teams and fulfilling the needs of the child