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About eQIPd

eQIPd exists to provide the education and care sector with insights to support quality. Every child deserves a great start in their critical first few years – and that means they should be able to access high-quality education and care. Unfortunately, we know that low-quality education and care harms children and the effects have been seen to be present even at age 15. eQIPd exists to help education and care services run organisational health checks to ensure their service is high quality.

The concept of eQIPd's parent and educator surveys service is simple enough – it’s a service for measuring families’ and educators’ perceptions about the quality of their education and care service, based on a common set of questions. Using the same questions across services means each eQIPd client can benchmark their service's result against other services, and this comparison provides actionable insights to management to support continuous improvement.

Continuous improvement underpins the National Quality Framework - reflective practice and allowing families to have a say in the running of the service are key factors which enable this.

eQIPd is the 2019 winner of the City of Greater Geelong’s inaugural Clever & Creatives pitch competition for startups. The award recognised eQIPd’s potential both as a tech business and as a social impact enterprise.

Hundreds of services across Australia use eQIPd’s survey services each year; the data shows eQIPd’s clients are more likely than the national average to be exceeding the National Quality Standards and are more likely to improve their rating when next assessed.

Glowing testimonials from repeat customers confirm that eQIPd saves services time, money and most importantly, provides insights and evidence for robust quality improvement planning.

Other services offered by eQIPd include:

• Presenting (in person or remotely) your survey findings
• Workshopping survey findings to develop Action Plans - including your QIP and Strategic Plan
• Focus groups with families or staff for more in-depth discovery
• Skills gap analysis
• Policy and procedures development
• Larger scale projects including demographic analysis to support education and care planning

About Felicity Dunn

Felicity Dunn is an education policy specialist with a background in regulatory policy. Felicity enjoys working with a variety of clients, from education and care services to all levels of Government, to run community consultations, provide analysis and policy advice. Prior to establishing eQIPd, Felicity worked in the Victorian State Government, where her work involved stakeholder consultation, legislation review, policy development and research spanning all education sectors.

Felicity currently serves as Chair of Playgroup Australia. Prior to this voluntary role she served on the Playgroup Victoria Board and as President at a community kindergarten in Melbourne’s inner north - this is where her passion for the early years began!

Felicity holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Public Policy & Management and a Bachelor of Arts (Political Science)/Music from The University of Melbourne, a Graduate Certificate in Education from Deakin University and is committed to her own ongoing professional learning.