Five new providers named for Knox Council

Victoria’s Knox Council has named five new providers who will deliver kindergarten in all stand-alone Council buildings where kindergartens are currently operating.

 

The announcement follows Council’s decision in August last year not to run stand-alone sessional kindergarten services, other than in the two Knox Children and Family Centres, and make its buildings available to other providers from 2025.

 

The five new providers are:

 

• KU Children’s Services 
• One Tree Community Services
• Uniting (Victoria and Tasmania)
• Ferntree Gully 3 Year Old Preschool and; 
• Liberty Avenue 3 Year Old Kindergarten.

 

Three of the providers are not-for-profit and two are independent kindergarten providers. Knox Mayor, Cr Jude Dwight said the appointment of the five new providers was the culmination of a lengthy and thorough public expressions of interest and tender process.

 

“From 2025, Council will make its stand-alone kindergarten buildings available to these five new providers, who are all specialist, not-for-profit and independent providers of sessional kindergarten as distinct from long day care,” she said.

 

“Families can be reassured of continued quality kindergarten, as we have now in Knox. This new arrangement brings Council in line with how most other councils across Melbourne operate and ensures a continuation of free, quality, stand-alone sessional kindergarten for Knox families.”

 

The five new kindergarten providers are all licensed to operate kindergartens in Victoria, and families who have registered for kindergarten places in 2025 have been notified directly.

 

Council will continue to provide centralised registrations to streamline the process for families into the future, and there will be no changes to kindergarten for families enrolled this year.

 

Kindergarten services will continue to run in 2024, providing 15 hours a week for both three and four year old children.  Proposed groups and session times for 2025 are available on the council’s website, with final groups and session times to be based on the registrations received by the council.

 

Families in the Knox area are able to register for places at the following kindergartens:

 

• Alexander Magit, Ferntree Gully – KU Children’s Services
• Bena Angliss, Ferntree Gully – One Tree Community Services
• Billoo Park, Wantirna – One Tree Community Services
• Cooinda, Boronia – Uniting (Victoria and Tasmania)
• Eildon Parade, Rowville – One Tree Community Services
• Flamingo, Wantirna – Uniting (Victoria and Tasmania)
• FW Kerr, Ferntree Gully – KU Children’s Services
• Haering Road, Boronia – One Tree Community Services
• Knox Children and Family Centre, Bayswater – Knox City Council
• Knox Children and Family Centre, Wantirna South – Knox City Council
• Knoxfield, Knoxfield – KU Children’s Services
• Liberty Avenue, Rowville – Liberty Avenue 3 Year Old Kindergarten
• Mariemont, Wantirna – KU Children’s Services
• Murrindal, Rowville – Uniting (Victoria and Tasmania)
• Riddell Road, Wantirna South – KU Children’s Services
• Scoresby West, Scoresby – Uniting (Victoria and Tasmania) 
• The Basin, The Basin – Uniting (Victoria and Tasmania)
• The Fields, Rowville – KU Children’s Services
• Wattleview, Ferntree Gully – Uniting (Victoria and Tasmania)
• Windermere, Ferntree Gully – Ferntree Gully 3 Year Old Preschool

 

Learn more about kindergarten provision in Knox here.