Family day care · Hamilton Hill
Four places, one educator, one house in Hamilton Hill.
Nadia’s house in Hamilton Hill: a back garden with a lemon tree, and four children a day. Not four rooms — four children.
Four places · one educator · seven years. Registered through an approved family day care scheme · Educator reg. FDC0000 · ABN 00 000 000 423.
- The same face every morning. No room changes, no rotating staff, no ratio you have to ask about.
- Meals, nappies and sunscreen are in the hourly rate. There is no second invoice and no “extras” column.
- You book the hours you need — an eight-hour day if you finish at three, eleven if you drive to the city.
The week, and your own subsidy
Your days, your percentage, both numbers.
Three standard days · 10 hours$13.20 an hour
Read this before you rely on the gap. That sum applies your percentage to our fee, and nothing else. Services Australia also caps the hourly rate it will subsidise, so a real gap can be a little higher than the figure above. We do not know your cap, we will not guess it here, and no number on this page is a government one. Bring your myGov statement to the visit and we will do the sum in the room, together.
Book a visit with these daysDays a week
How long a day
In the hourly rate
- Breakfast, morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea
- Nappies, wipes and sunscreen
- Everything used in the garden and the kitchen
- Excursions on foot — the park, the library, the beach
What a place costs
One rate, three lengths of day, nothing else.
Every figure here is Kindling’s own fee for a place, before any subsidy you may be entitled to. Nothing on this page is a government payment or a government rate, and none of it changes because of who you are.
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A short day
$105.60 · 8 hours, 8am–4pm
Enough for a full shift plus the drive at both ends, and it is the cheapest place we sell.
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A standard day
$132.00 · 10 hours, 7am–5pm
Doors open at seven. Room for an early start, the commute at both ends and a bit of slack.
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A long day
$145.20 · 11 hours, 7am–6pm
The full day the house is open. For city commutes and shifts that finish at half five.
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The rate itself
$13.20 · an hour, every hour
The same rate for a baby and a four-year-old, the same rate on a Monday and a Friday. Every price above is just this rate times the hours.
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Meals, nappies, sunscreen
$0 · included, not an add-on
Four cooked-here meals a day, nappies and wipes, and a hat and sunscreen kept in the basket by the door.
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The orientation visit
$0 · an hour, in the house
You come with your child, stay for a session, and meet the four children who are already here. No obligation and no deposit.
The sentence that costs us money, and we would rather you had it: a short day is $26.40 cheaper than a standard one, every single day you book — and that saving does not shrink as you add days, because it is the same $26.40 off each one. If you genuinely finish at three, book the short day and keep the difference.
How a place starts
Four steps, and you have stood in the house by step two.
Family day care is the one kind of care you can actually inspect before you commit, because it is somebody’s house and you are allowed in it. That is the whole argument for it, so we put the visit first and everything else after.
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Ring, or send the form
Tell us your child’s age and how many days you are after. Nadia rings back the same day if it is before five, the next morning if it is not.
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Come and stay a session
Bring your child. Stay an hour, not ten minutes. See the garden, the sleep room, the lunch, and the other three children on the floor.
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Paperwork and a settling week
Enrolment goes through the scheme, and the first week runs short days at your pace — two hours, then a morning, then a full day.
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Your days, every week
Photos and a note about the day go home on the app the same afternoon. Your place is yours for as long as you want it.
What families say
Three of the families here now.
“We came from a big centre where our son had four different educators in a term. He has had Nadia for two years. He still talks about the lemon tree.”
“I asked eleven educators what they charged. Two answered. Kindling had it written down before I rang, which is why I rang.”
“Our daughter has a dairy allergy and we have never once had to pack food. Nadia just cooks around it and tells us what she ate.”
These reviews are demonstration copy written for this page. They are not real families, and they are not marked up as review data.
Where the families come from
A pram ride, or a stop on the way to the freeway.
Kindling is one house, so there is no second site and no branch. Most families are within about ten minutes; a few come further because the drop-off is on their way north. If you are outside this, ring anyway — the answer is about the drive, not the postcode.
Families come from
- Hamilton Hill
- Spearwood
- Coolbellup
- Beaconsfield
- White Gum Valley
- South Fremantle
- Bibra Lake
- Yangebup
The map is drawn, not surveyed. It shows roughly where our families live, not a catchment or a boundary. The address on this page is suburb-level only, because it is somebody’s home.
Asked at nearly every visit
Answered plainly, including the ones we will not answer.
If what you need is not here, ring. Nobody will try to sign you up for days you do not need — there are four places and they are meant to suit four families.
What are the hours?
The house is open 7:00am to 6:00pm, Monday to Friday. You book one of three lengths: an eight-hour day from 8:00 to 4:00, a ten-hour day from 7:00 to 5:00, or the full eleven from 7:00 to 6:00. Drop-off and pick-up inside your booked window are yours to use however the day goes.
What is actually included in $13.20 an hour?
Four meals cooked in the kitchen you will be standing in, nappies, wipes, sunscreen, a hat, and everything used in the garden. There is no bond, no enrolment fee, no late-pick-up fee inside the opening hours and no Christmas levy. If we ever have to add something, it goes on this page before it goes on your invoice.
What happens when you are away?
Kindling closes for four weeks a year — two at Christmas, two in the middle of the year — and those weeks are published in January so you can plan leave around them. You are not charged for the closure weeks. If Nadia is unwell at short notice you get a call by 6:30am, and the scheme can usually offer a relief educator; you are free to take it or keep your child home.
Whether an absence you take is still charged for, and how any of that interacts with a subsidy, is a scheme and Services Australia question — we will show you their rules in writing rather than paraphrase them on a web page.
Do you take babies?
Yes, from around six months, and the rate is the same $13.20 an hour as for a four-year-old. Bottles, sleep routines and solids all follow whatever you are already doing at home — we write down what happened rather than telling you what should have. How many under-twos can be here at once is set by the scheme and the regulator, not by us, so it is a question for the visit where we can show you the actual answer for this house.
Can you do school pick-ups?
Only on foot and only for schools inside the walk — in practice that is the two primary schools in Hamilton Hill. If your older child is at one of them we can collect them and they join the afternoon here, billed at the same hourly rate for the hours they are in the house. Anything that needs a car we say no to, because taking four children out in a car is not the sort of day we run.
What is a scheme, and what does it do?
A family day care educator does not operate alone. We are registered through an approved family day care scheme, which is the organisation that visits the house, checks it, holds the enrolment paperwork, handles the subsidy claiming, runs the training and sends a coordinator here regularly. You will meet ours.
The scheme also sets rules we have to follow — how many children, of what ages, on what terms. We will hand you their current written rules at the visit. We deliberately do not restate them on this page, because a page that paraphrases somebody else’s rules is the page that goes out of date first.
How do I find my own subsidy percentage?
It is on your own myGov account, not on this page. Sign in, go to Centrelink, and look under your child care claim or entitlement details — the percentage is stated there against your family. That is the number to slide into the panel at the top.
We will not print a percentage, a rate, a cap, an income figure or an hours figure here, because those are Services Australia’s numbers, they change, and a childcare business quoting them from memory is how families end up budgeting wrong. Bring the statement to the visit and we will read it with you.
Book an orientation visit
Five things, and we will find you an hour.
An orientation visit is an hour in the house with your child, during a normal session, with the other children here. It costs nothing and there is no deposit at the end of it.
If you would rather just talk, ring (08) 9000 0423 — it is Nadia’s phone, so if the children are eating it will go to message and come back within the hour.
That is everything we need to find you an hour.
Thanks — Nadia would ring you back the same day to book the visit.
- An hour in the house during a normal session, with your child.
- The current fee in writing, and your gap worked out from your own statement.
- If there is no place on your days, we will say so on the phone rather than book you a visit.
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