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About eQIPd
eQIPd (formerly Kinder Surveys) was founded by Felicity Dunn in 2016. In 2019 Kinder Surveys underwent an expansion of its role and functions and eQIPd was created. The concept of eQIPd is simple enough – it’s a shared service for measuring families’ and educators’ perceptions about the quality and effectiveness of the education and care service their child attends or they work at, with a view to providing actionable insights to management to support quality improvement planning.
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.
As a result, many education and care services build and administer their own parent and staff surveys, costing them considerable time and money. Sometimes, the surveys are not well designed, resulting in data that is meaningless and impossible to act on. Sometimes, the survey results are not reliable as the survey process is not independent.
And with 15,000 education and care services operating across Australia, this is wasteful – particularly given the opportunity for rich data and insights, opportunities for benchmarking, further research across the sector - if only the sector could collaborate via a shared service for measuring quality.
Hence, eQIPd!
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 centres already using eQIPd’s service 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 this shared service approach saves 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
About Felicity Dunn
Felicity Dunn is an education policy specialist with a background in regulatory policy. After many years working in the Victorian State Government, where her work involved stakeholder consultation, legislation review, policy development and research spanning all education sectors, she started consulting on a number of projects for education and care services, local council and other consultants.
Felicity Dunn currently serves as Chair of Playgroup Victoria, a role she has held since 2016 and as a member of the board since 2014. Prior to this voluntary role she served as President at a community kindergarten in Melbourne’s inner north for three years.
Felicity holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Public Policy & Management and a Bachelor of Arts (Political Science)/Music from The University of Melbourne and is committed to her own ongoing professional learning.