Childcare cleaning across Sydney for long day care, preschool, OSHC and early learning services — spelt centre or center, the standard is identical. Every cleaner assigned to your service holds a current Working With Children Check and National Police Clearance. We use TGA-registered, child-safe disinfectants held for the full label dwell time, and leave a signed room-by-room visit record you can file against National Quality Standard Quality Area 2 and Quality Area 3.
Pro Clean Corp cleans childcare centres across Greater Sydney — long day care services, preschools and kindergartens, occasional care, and OSHC programmes operating out of school halls. Australian services are licensed as childcare centres while much of the search traffic and many international operators write childcare center; both spellings describe the same work, and both are covered here. Nappy change benches, cot rails, highchairs, sensory trays, drink bottle racks and bathroom taps are treated as the high-risk touchpoints they are, not as an afterthought at the end of a general office clean.
Our childcare cleaning method is built around three operational controls. First, colour-coded microfibre and mop heads are zoned so nothing that touches a nappy change area or toilet ever returns to a food preparation bench or a sleep room. Second, disinfectants are TGA-registered and left for the full contact time printed on the label — the step most commonly skipped, and the reason a wiped surface can still carry rotavirus or norovirus. Third, every visit is logged room by room and signed off, giving your nominated supervisor evidence for a spot check, a parent complaint, or an assessment and rating visit under the National Quality Framework.
There is no regulation that says “hire a cleaner”. What the Education and Care Services National Regulations require is that the premises are maintained in a safe, clean and hygienic condition (Regulation 103, Regulation 109 for toilet and hygiene facilities, and Regulation 77 for health, hygiene and safe food practices). Your approved provider carries that obligation whether the work is done in-house or contracted out. In practice, an authorised officer at an assessment and rating visit does not audit our company — they audit your evidence. That is why the deliverable we care most about is the signed, dated, room-by-room record left after every visit, not the invoice.
Those records map directly to National Quality Standard Quality Area 2 (Children's Health and Safety, particularly Element 2.1.2 health practices and procedures) and Quality Area 3 (Physical Environment, Element 3.1.2 upkeep). If your service is working through a Quality Improvement Plan, cleaning documentation is one of the few areas where you can move from “we intend to” to “here is twelve months of dated evidence” without changing anything about your programme. We also keep a current copy of every cleaner's Working With Children Check on file and will send the clearance numbers to your nominated supervisor before the first visit, which closes off the contractor-screening question before it is asked.
Quotes for the same centre can differ by 40% because operators scope the job differently, not because one is cheaper per hour. Five variables move the number more than anything else:
We quote a fixed price per visit after a free walkthrough, itemised by area, with periodic tasks (strip-and-seal, carpet steam, high dusting, outbreak response) priced separately and clearly so your approved provider or parent committee can see what recurs monthly versus annually. There is no lock-in period.
Most Sydney services book a nightly clean after the last child is collected, typically from 6pm, with a weekly deeper task rotation folded into the schedule (one bathroom deep clean, one room detailed, toys rotated) so nothing waits for a quarterly blitz. On top of that we run term-break and end-of-year shutdown cleans, pre-assessment cleans booked ahead of an assessment and rating visit, and same-day outbreak response.
Outbreak response is worth booking before you need it. Gastro, hand-foot-and-mouth and rotavirus all persist on surfaces far longer than a routine wipe-down assumes, and NSW Health advice for early childhood services during an outbreak calls for more frequent cleaning of high-touch surfaces and toys with the correct product held for the correct contact time. Having the protocol and the products agreed in advance means a call at 3pm can turn into a crew on site the same evening rather than a three-day scramble.
We publish a rate band rather than a monthly figure per centre size, because a 40-place service with outdoor space in scope and a 40-place service without are different jobs at the same licence number. The band is $30 to $50 per hour: ongoing scheduled contracts sit at $30–$45 per hour and one-off work such as a term-break deep clean or an outbreak response at $40–$50 per hour. Ongoing contracts typically work out 15–25% cheaper per clean than one-off bookings. Every centre is then quoted as a fixed price per visit, itemised by area, after a free walkthrough — so the number your approved provider signs is the number invoiced. Figures exclude GST.
| Licensed places | Typical scope driving the visit | Usual schedule | Rate basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Around 20 places | Two rooms, one children's bathroom, one nappy change bench, small kitchen, single outdoor play space | Nightly after the last collection | $30–$50/hr ongoing |
| Around 40 places | Three rooms, two bathrooms, nappy change and bottle prep bench, staff room, decking and sandpit surrounds | Five nights a week | $30–$50/hr ongoing |
| Around 75 places | Five to six rooms including separate sleep rooms, multiple bathrooms, kitchen and bottle prep, office and foyer, full outdoor play space | Five nights plus weekly deep-task rotation | $30–$50/hr ongoing |
| 100+ places | Seven or more rooms, separate infant bathrooms, commercial kitchen, multiple outdoor yards, lift or multi-level access | Five nights plus scheduled periodic work | $30–$50/hr ongoing |
| Any size — periodic and one-off | Term-break and end-of-year shutdown cleans, pre-assessment cleans, strip-and-seal, carpet steam, outbreak response | Booked as required | $40–$50/hr one-off |
Read the table alongside the five cost drivers set out earlier on this page — licensed places and room count, outdoor scope, nights per week, toy and soft-furnishing rotation, and floor type. Two quotes at the same hourly rate can still differ by 40% because one has quietly excluded the yard and the toy wash. For a deeper look at how our childcare programme is built and documented, see childcare centre cleaning Sydney, and for how childcare compares against other premises types across the network see commercial cleaning prices Sydney.
Our childcare crews are rostered from local depots so a 3pm outbreak call can turn into a crew on site the same evening. The first six pages below are dedicated childcare cleaning pages; the remainder are the local commercial cleaning pages for suburbs where our childcare teams also operate, and they set out the access and scheduling arrangements for that area.
Our childcare cleaning specialists conduct comprehensive safety assessments, identifying high-touch surfaces, play areas, eating spaces, and hygiene-critical zones. We develop customized cleaning protocols that address toys, furniture, playground equipment, and common areas while ensuring adherence to Australian childcare standards and National Quality Framework requirements.
We perform intensive sanitization using child-safe, non-toxic cleaning products including toy disinfection, surface cleaning, equipment sanitization, and area decontamination. Our cleaning addresses germs, bacteria, and viral contamination using eco-friendly, child-approved products that ensure safety while maintaining effective cleaning standards.
Our comprehensive facility cleaning includes classroom sanitization, play area maintenance, art room cleaning, library care, and outdoor playground cleaning. We focus on creating safe learning environments, removing hazards, and maintaining cleanliness standards that support child development and educational activities.
We provide detailed cleaning documentation, compliance checklists, and regulatory inspection preparation support. Our documentation system helps childcare operators maintain records required for licensing inspections and demonstrates ongoing commitment to child safety and hygiene standards.
Professional childcare cleaning prevents illness transmission, reduces infection risks, and creates safer environments for children.
Our cleaning services ensure compliance with Australian childcare standards and National Quality Framework requirements.
Clean, well-maintained facilities build parent trust and support positive childcare reputation and enrollment.
Clean, organized spaces support effective learning, reduce distractions, and promote positive child development.
Pro Clean Corp provides childcare cleaning services throughout Sydney NSW's family-friendly suburbs and early learning districts. Our specialised teams service childcare facilities in:
Every zone in a childcare centre requires a specific cleaning approach. Here is what our teams deliver in each area on every scheduled visit.
“Childcare” covers four quite different operating models, and a cleaning programme copied from one to another will be wrong in predictable ways. Long day care runs eleven or twelve hours a day, fifty weeks a year, with infants in nappies and cots in the mix — the heaviest scope, five nights a week, with nappy change areas, cot rails, highchairs and bottle prep benches as the non-negotiable core. Preschool and kindergarten services usually operate school terms only, with older children out of nappies, which shifts weight away from change areas and onto craft residue, floor surfaces, bathrooms and a heavier term-break deep clean. OSHC programmes typically occupy a shared school hall for a few hours either side of the school day, so the job is a fast turnaround between the school's own cleaning contract and the next morning — coordination with the school cleaner matters more than scope size. Family day care coordination units are essentially small offices with a toy library attached, and their real requirement is equipment sanitisation between loans.
This boundary is worth writing down at the start of a contract, because when it is left implicit both sides assume the other is handling it. Educators handle in-the-moment hygiene during the session — nappy change surface disinfection after each change, wiping tables before and after meals, immediate spill and toileting-accident response, and bagging soiled linen. That work is part of your health and hygiene policy under Regulation 77 and it cannot be outsourced to an evening visit. Our scope starts after the last child leaves: the full floor, bathroom and change-area disinfection, kitchen and bottle prep, sleep rooms, staff areas, entry glass and reception, waste, plus the scheduled rotation of toys, soft furnishings and equipment.
Two grey areas cause most friction: toy washing, which is either a rostered educator task, a contractor task, or nobody's task; and laundry of sleep bags, cot linen and dress-ups. We will take either or both, but they should appear in the scope document with a stated frequency rather than being assumed. Where a room leader wants a specific item excluded — a sensory tray, a delicate display, a child's comfort item — we tag it and leave it alone.
Beyond the nightly visit, a childcare centre needs a periodic calendar: carpet extraction in rest and reading areas, vinyl strip-and-seal or burnish, high dusting and light diffusers, blind and curtain cleaning, exterior window cleaning, outdoor deck and soft-fall pressure washing, and a full toy and equipment sanitisation cycle. Term breaks and the end-of-year shutdown are the natural windows for the disruptive items, and booking them against dates at contract start is the only reliable way to ensure they happen. Separately, outbreak response — gastro, hand-foot-and-mouth, rotavirus, or a notifiable illness — should be a pre-agreed protocol with the products already on the shelf, so a call at 3pm produces a crew that evening rather than a discussion about scope.
Element 2.1.2 of the National Quality Standard requires that effective illness and injury management and hygiene practices are promoted and implemented. Cleaning is the largest single contributor to that element, and it is also where services most often lose marks — not because the centre is dirty, but because nothing on file proves what was done, when, with what product, and by whom. An authorised officer assessing Quality Area 2 is looking for a documented system, not a clean floor on the day of the visit.
There are five things worth having in the folder before an assessment and rating visit. First, a written cleaning schedule that names each area, the task, the frequency and who is responsible — the educator or the contractor — so the boundary between in-session hygiene and after-hours cleaning is explicit rather than assumed. Second, attendance and completion records for each visit, dated and signed, which is what turns your schedule from an intention into evidence. Third, current safety data sheets and product labels for every chemical held on site, along with the contact time each disinfectant requires, since a product wiped off before its label dwell time has not disinfected anything. Fourth, evidence of chemical storage and handling — locked, out of reach, in original labelled containers. Fifth, current Working With Children Checks and police clearances for every person who enters the building.
Two further items are worth holding even though they are not asked for at every visit. A written outbreak response protocol, agreed with your cleaner before an outbreak rather than during one, demonstrates that your response to a gastro or hand-foot-and-mouth event was planned rather than improvised, and the attendance records from that response show it was carried out. And a periodic calendar — carpet extraction, hard floor strip and seal, high dusting, blind and light diffuser cleaning, outdoor soft-fall washing — with dates against each item shows a maintenance cycle rather than a reactive one.
Pro Clean Corp supplies all of this as part of the service rather than on request: a scope document written per room, a completion record after every attendance, product documentation kept current, and staff clearance copies available to your director at any time. It is formatted to be attached directly to your Quality Improvement Plan, which is the point at which most directors stop having to rebuild the evidence themselves the week before an assessment.
A specification is not a task list — it is the method, the product and the frequency behind each task. These are the standards our crews work to in each room, and the detail we write into a scope document so a director can hold us to it.
Everything in a nursery is assessed on the assumption that an infant will mouth it. Cot frames, rails and mattress covers are disinfected with a product safe for infant contact zones and left to air rather than being wiped dry immediately, so the contact time is actually achieved. Floors are the primary surface here because non-walking infants spend the day on them, so they are disinfected rather than damp-mopped, with a separate mop head that is never used in a bathroom. Bouncers, rockers, play mats and low shelving are wiped every visit; soft furnishings, cushion covers and sleep bags go on a laundering rotation written into the scope with a stated frequency. Air vents and window tracks are on the periodic cycle. No fragranced product is used in a sleep space.
This is the highest-risk area in the building and the one an assessor looks at first. Change mats, the bench surround, the adjacent hand basin and taps, the nappy bin exterior and lid, and the step or stool are disinfected with hospital-grade, child-safe product held for its full label contact time. Colour-coded cloths and mops are used here and nowhere else, which is the single most effective control against carrying contamination into a food or sleep area. Floors are disinfected wall to wall, including behind the bin and under the change unit where soil accumulates out of sight. Child toilets, cisterns, seats, flush buttons, basins and step stools are done individually rather than sprayed as a block, and soap and paper are restocked before they run out rather than when someone reports them empty.
These rooms produce more mess and less risk than the nursery, so the emphasis shifts to residue and reset. Craft materials leave glue, paint, glitter and clay on tables, chairs, floors and skirting, and if that is left it hardens and becomes a scraping job within a week. Tables and chair frames are wiped every visit including the underside edges children grip, and the floor is machine or hand cleaned to lift set residue rather than smeared over it. Shared equipment goes on a documented sanitisation rotation so every item comes round on a known cycle rather than only the ones sitting in the open. Book corners, dress-up boxes and sensory trays are cleaned around unless the room leader has asked otherwise, and anything tagged by an educator as not to be touched is left exactly where it is.
A childcare kitchen is a food premises and is cleaned to that standard, not to a staff-room standard. Food contact benches, the sink and splashback, the dishwasher door and seal, appliance exteriors, the fridge and freezer seals and handles, and the floor including the waste gully are done every visit with food-safe chemistry and dedicated equipment that never crosses into an amenity area. Bottle preparation areas — bench, steriliser exterior, bottle warmer, kettle base and the storage shelf above — are treated as their own zone because they serve infants. Bins are emptied, the bin body itself washed on a stated frequency rather than only relined, and the exhaust filter and canopy are quoted as a scheduled periodic item alongside our commercial kitchen cleaning team where a centre cooks on site.
Outdoor areas are the part of the service most often left out of a cleaning contract and the part most likely to generate a parent complaint. Hard play surfaces, decking and pathways are swept and washed on a stated cycle, and soft-fall rubber and synthetic grass are pressure washed periodically because organic matter and spilled food feed a black biofilm in the surface. Climbing frames, slides, cubby houses, handrails, water play equipment and outdoor tables are wiped down on the same rotation as indoor equipment. Sandpits are raked and inspected for foreign material, with covers checked and cleaned, and sand replacement or turning scheduled as a periodic item. Verandah roofs, gutter lines above play areas, bin stores and outdoor taps are on the same calendar as indoor high-level work, alongside carpet extraction in the indoor rest and reading areas.
A standard visit covers every room children access plus the areas staff and parents use: babies and toddler rooms, preschool rooms, sleep and rest rooms including cot rails and mattress covers, nappy change benches and bins, children's bathrooms and nappy change taps, the kitchen and bottle preparation bench, the staff room, the office and sign-in bench, foyer glass and door handles, corridors, and outdoor decking, sandpit surrounds and shade-sail posts where they form part of the licensed play space. Anything outside that list is quoted separately so nothing appears on your invoice that you did not agree to.
We use TGA-registered disinfectants selected for early childhood settings — low-odour, free of chlorine bleach, phthalates and strong fragrance, and rinsed from any surface a child mouths, such as highchair trays and teething toys. Safety data sheets are supplied on request and are stored with your service records. Chemicals are never decanted into unlabelled bottles and are removed from the premises or returned to a locked store at the end of every visit, so nothing is left within reach of a child.
Every cleaner rostered to a childcare centre holds a current Working With Children Check issued under the Child Protection (Working with Children) Act 2012 NSW, plus a National Police Clearance. Clearance numbers and expiry dates are held on file and can be emailed to your nominated supervisor or approved provider before the first visit. We employ our cleaners directly rather than subcontracting, so the person who cleans your service this month is the person whose clearance you have on file.
Most Sydney services book us after the last child is collected, typically from 6pm, because vacuuming and floor work are noisy. Where a centre needs a mid-day reset — a gastro outbreak, a spill, or a room changeover — we can send a cleaner during rest period to work in the unoccupied rooms only, using low-noise equipment and no aerosol products. We also cover school holiday deep cleans, end-of-year shutdown cleans, and pre-assessment cleans booked ahead of an assessment and rating visit.
Hard plastic toys, stacking cups, blocks and manipulatives are washed, disinfected with full dwell time, rinsed and air-dried in mesh baskets rather than being towel-dried, which reintroduces contamination. Fabric items — dress-ups, cushion covers, sleep bags, soft toys — are laundered on a schedule agreed with your room leaders. Climbing frames, cubby houses, trikes and outdoor equipment are wiped down on the frequency set out in your programme. Toy rotation and sanitising can be scheduled around a gastro or hand-foot-and-mouth outbreak at short notice.
Pricing is driven by licensed places, the number of rooms and bathrooms, whether outdoor areas are in scope, and how many nights per week you need. Most Sydney services run five nights a week. We quote a fixed price per visit after a free walkthrough of your centre, itemised by area, so your approved provider or committee can see exactly what is included before signing. There is no lock-in period. Call 1300 494 983 to arrange the walkthrough.
Yes, in three ways that matter. Contact times are enforced rather than assumed, because paediatric pathogens such as rotavirus and hand-foot-and-mouth survive on surfaces long after a quick wipe. Cross-contamination controls are stricter, since a single mop head moving from a nappy change area to a bottle bench undoes the whole visit. And the paperwork is different — a childcare center clean produces a record designed to be read by a regulator, not just an invoice. A general commercial cleaner without those three controls will look identical on the surface and behave very differently under inspection.
Yes. Pro Clean Corp services both council-operated and privately-operated childcare centres and early learning services across Greater Sydney. We are familiar with the additional contractor compliance requirements that apply to council facilities, including council-specific induction procedures, insurance requirements, and cleaning standards aligned with local government procurement policies. Our teams hold $20M public liability insurance and all required staff clearances applicable to child-occupied council premises.
Both, at different points. Educators handle in-session hygiene: nappy change surface disinfection after every change, table wipe-down before and after meals, immediate response to spills and toileting accidents, and bagging soiled linen. That sits inside your own health and hygiene policy under Regulation 77 and cannot be deferred to an evening visit. Our scope begins after the last child is collected and covers the full floor, bathroom and change-area disinfection, kitchen and bottle preparation areas, sleep rooms, staff areas, entry glass, waste, and the scheduled rotation of toys and soft furnishings. We recommend writing that boundary into the scope document at the outset, because the tasks that get missed are always the ones each side assumed the other had.
Yes, and it works far better when the protocol is agreed before you need it. During an outbreak the requirement shifts to more frequent cleaning of high-touch surfaces and toys, with a product appropriate to the organism held for its full label contact time — a routine wipe-down does not clear these pathogens from surfaces. We keep the correct products and an agreed room sequence on file for each centre we service, so a call during the afternoon can put a crew on site that evening rather than starting a conversation about scope and pricing. Outbreak attendances are documented separately in your service records, which is useful evidence if you need to demonstrate your response to a parent, your approved provider, or NSW Health.
Services that share a building with offices or retail tenancies often bundle their childcare programme with commercial cleaning Sydney, and multi-site operators frequently use the same crew arrangement as our commercial cleaners Sydney teams. Where a centre runs a licensed kitchen for on-site cooking, pair this programme with commercial kitchen cleaning. For health-sector infection control at a comparable standard, see medical centre cleaning services.
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