About
About eQIPd
eQIPd exists to equip the education and care sector with insights to support quality, and communities with insights to support the planning of service provision. 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.
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.
eQIPd is much more than surveys. Other services offered by eQIPd include:
- Workforce planning within councils
- Demographic analysis to assist service planning and to identify unmet needs
- Feasibility studies including fee and occupancy modelling for various scenarios
- Geospatial mapping to identify travel times to access services and identify gaps in service delivery
- Preparation of evidence-base and business case for grants
- Community consultation via online surveys, in-depth interviews and group engagement sessions
- Workshop facilitation to support educational teams' critical reflection
- Supporting committees to develop strategic plans
Who is behind eQIPd?
Felicity Dunn is the founder of eQIPd. Felicity works with Commonwealth, State and local levels of Government with a particular focus on education policy and regulation. Felicity is skilled in bringing the voices of community to all aspects of service delivery and planning, whether through community consultation, surveys or workshops. Combined with her data analysis skills, she provides exceptional evidence-based narratives to support her clients. Felicity also collaborates with other consultants on projects as needed, assisting clients to access deeply relevant, specialist skills for their projects.
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.