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Congratulations to Mission Australia’s Early Learning Services (MAELS) Shell Cove for being accredited as a 'High Quality' service by the National Childcare Accreditation Council (NCAC).

NCAC is a not-for-profit, Australian Government-funded organisation that is responsible for administering Child Care Quality Assurance for long day care centres.

Its Quality Improvement and Accreditation System (QIAS) is based on seven Quality Areas and 33 Principles that summarise and define long day care – and our Shell Cove centre achieved the high-quality ranking against all seven indicators.

Centre Director Carissa Roberts and staff have put in a lot of effort in the weeks and months leading up to their high-quality accreditation. MAELS NSW Regional Manager Ben Williams and our National Accreditation Advisor Karen Dawson have also gone above and beyond to help the service obtain this result.

All our 29 MAELS centres are undergoing the NCAC accreditation process, with seven having undergone the process so far and the remaining 22 to be completed by March.

To be accredited, a centre must achieve a rating of “satisfactory” or higher on all seven Quality Areas, including staff relationships with children and peers; partnerships with families; programming and evaluation; children's experiences and learning; protective care and safety, health, nutrition and wellbeing, and managing to support quality.