The facility where quality, integrated early years’ services will be delivered to support your family during the first years of your child’s life, through to primary school.
Cowes Primary School site in Settlement Road, Cowes.
The Hub’s design which is open, vibrant and full of natural light allows delivery of high quality services in the best environment. The importance of learning and education can be modelled to children through early learning and care services right through primary school.
Locating services at the Cowes Primary School helps provide seamless services for you and your family and creates a stimulating environment for your child to learn and grow. Service providers can share expertise and resources, improve referrals and access to specialist services, and help your child with transition to primary school.
The Hub is designed with new proposed regulations in mind that increase staff to child ratios. Current early years’ facilities are old and need significant investment to comply with the new regulations.
UnitingCare Gippsland, a Gippsland-based community service organisation, will manage the Hub and employ the staff who work in the early learning and care services. Bass Coast Community Health Service will provide maternal and child health services. Other organisations will also offer allied health services from the site.
Currently, a parent committee manages the Phillip Island Kindergarten. Management will move to UnitingCare Gippsland later in 2012, closer to the time of moving to the Hub. At this time staff employed by the committee will transfer their employ to UnitingCare Gippsland.
UnitingCare Gippsland took over management of the Kids House child care service on 1 January 2012. There is no change to current service and location.
When the Hub is approved to deliver services, each service will relocate there. Until then each early years’ service will be provided from its current location.
UnitingCare Gippsland will conduct parent information sessions at each location to answer any questions you may have.
You will be able to become involved and support services delivered from the Hub through a parent advisory committee.
Fees will be determined each year in consultation with the parent advisory committee and will depend on which service you use.
If you are interested in finding out more about UnitingCare Gippsland you can visit the UnitingCare Gippsland website.
For further information about services offered at the Phillip Island Early Learning Centre contact Tracey Gibson, Director – Performance and Innovation, UnitingCare Gippsland, telephone (03) 5662 5150.
You can visit our Construction progress at the Hub page to find out what is currently happening on the ground at the site, and what's next.