Information for early childhood service providers

This page has information for early childhood education and care providers about your:

• regulatory authority
• approval to operate a service
• quality assessment and rating.

Quality Education and Care NT

Quality Education and Care NT (QECNT) regulates early childhood education and care services (including early childhood service providers) in the Northern Territory under the National Quality Framework.

The role of QECNT includes:

• ensuring services comply with the law
• approving applications to operate an early childhood service
• quality rating of services against national standards
• incident and complaint investigation.

Find out more about QECNT.

Approval and notification requirements

QECNT can assist you with:

• applying to become a registered provider of early childhood services
• applying to operate a service
• notification of change of status, incidents or complaints.

For more information, go to the Australian Children's Education and Care Quality Authority (ACECQA) website.

Quality assessment and rating

Early childhood services are assessed and rated under the National Quality Framework (NQF).

QECNT undertakes the assessment and rating process in the NT.

For more information on assessment and rating go to the ACECQA website.

Read more about the NQF.

Contact

You can contact Quality Education and Care NT by:

• calling 08 8999 3561
• emailing qualityecnt.det@nt.gov.au.

Further Information for providers and services can be found on the Department of Education website.