🧸 For Childcare Centres
Every meal safe.
Every record ready.
EthicalHub keeps your kitchen’s temperature logs, menus, allergy records and supplier certificates in one place, so your food safety audit and assessment visits run on records, not memory.
From $69/month
Supports class 1 food safety programs
Records for National Regulations 77–80
No lock-in contracts
Class 1
The usual class for Victorian long day care centres that serve meals
A food safety program written for your site, audited every year
Regs 77–80
Food rules in the Education and Care Services National Regulations
Safe food practices, drinking water, nutritious food and a weekly menu
60s
to produce a complete record for your auditor
Temperatures, menus, allergy checks and sign-offs, any date range
The problem
Where childcare kitchens get caught out
Your cook knows how to keep food safe. The hard part is proving it, every day, to two different sets of people.
Allergies change, and the kitchen hears last
A new enrolment or an updated allergy plan reaches the office first. If the kitchen’s list isn’t updated the same day, the wrong meal can reach the wrong child.
Two rulebooks, two sets of visits
Your food safety auditor and council check the food safety program. Your regulatory authority checks the National Regulations. Both want evidence, in different shapes.
Records live on the fridge door
Temperature sheets, cleaning charts and delivery dockets pile up in folders. Finding last March’s records for the auditor takes an afternoon.
The cook is the system
When your cook is sick or leaves, the routine goes with them. Relief staff don’t know what to check or where to write it down.
What’s inside
Built for the way a childcare kitchen runs
Food safety software for childcare centres: the daily checks, menus and allergy records your kitchen keeps, in one place.
Allergy & dietary records
- Dietary record per child with allergens
- Cultural, religious and other diet needs
- Change log: who changed what, and when
- Meals checked against records before service
Menus
- Weekly menu recorded with allergens per dish
- Changes and substitutions logged
- Past menus easy to find for an assessor
Temperature control
- Fridge, freezer and delivery temperatures
- Cooking, cooling, reheating and hot holding
- Out-of-range readings open a corrective action
- 365-day searchable history
Cleaning & hygiene
- Kitchen cleaning and sanitising sign-offs
- Bottle and food prep area records
- Cleaning schedule documentation
Staff training
- Food safety supervisor certificate on file
- Food handler training register
- Induction sign-offs for relief cooks
Suppliers & audit export
- Supplier certificates with expiry alerts
- Delivery temperature and rejection logs
- Audit record for any date range in 60 seconds
Getting started
Set up before next week’s menu.
No IT project. No consultant.
Built for centre directors and cooks, not IT departments.
1
Set up your centre
Add your kitchen, your staff and your equipment. EthicalHub loads the prerequisite programs your food safety program is built on.
2
Add dietary records
Record each child’s allergies and diet needs once. The change log tracks every update.
3
Log as you cook
Your cook logs temperatures, cleaning and deliveries on a phone or tablet in seconds.
4
Export for the auditor
One click produces a complete record for your food safety audit or assessment visit.
Who uses EthicalHub
Built for every childcare kitchen
From a single centre with one cook to a group with an area manager checking every site.
Long day care centres
- Class 1 food safety program records
- Daily allergy checks against the menu
- Records ready for the annual audit
Multi-centre groups
- Compliance dashboard across centres
- Centralised supplier certificates
- Same checks at every site
Outside school hours care
- Food handling and cleaning records
- Allergy records per child
- Simple logging for rotating staff
Standards alignment
What auditors and assessors ask for
Two sets of rules touch a childcare kitchen. EthicalHub keeps the day-to-day records that show you’re meeting them. Confirm your exact obligations with your council and regulatory authority.
Food law (Victoria)
Class 1 food premises
A food safety program written for your site, a food safety supervisor, an annual council check and an annual audit. Standard 3.3.1 also applies.
Education and care
National Regulations 77–80
Safe food handling and hygiene, drinking water, nutritious food that meets each child’s needs, and a weekly menu on display.
Education and care
Regulation 90
A medical conditions policy, with a risk minimisation plan for each child with an allergy or relevant condition.
✓ What EthicalHub records
✓Food safety program records built on the prerequisite programs
✓Dietary records per child, with allergens and a change log
✓Weekly menus with allergens per dish
✓Temperature, cleaning and delivery records
✓Staff training and supplier certificates, with expiry alerts
✗ What it doesn’t do
✗Replace your medical conditions policy or each child’s risk minimisation plan
✗Give medical or nutrition advice
✗Make your service compliant on its own: it keeps the records, your team does the work
In Victoria, child care centres providing long day care that serve potentially hazardous food are usually class 1 food premises. Your council confirms the class and checks your premises each year, and an approved auditor audits your food safety program each year. Childcare food safety programs explained
Pricing
Less than one consultant hour per month.
An external gap review before an audit can cost thousands. EthicalHub starts at $69/month per site and keeps your records audit-ready every day of the year.
To get started
Essentials
$69/month/site
Or $690/year per site · save 17%
- HACCP & PRP program
- Audit pack generation
- Delivery log records
- IoT sensor integration
- Compliance hub
- Staff training records
- Monthly sign-offs
- Corrective actions
- Supplier management
- Calibration records
- 4 seats included
- Up to 3 sites · $69/month per additional site
For growing businesses
Professional
$149/month/site
Or $1,430/year per site · save 20%
- Everything in Essentials
- Deviation pattern alerts
- Impact (ethical sourcing) records
- 8 seats included
- Up to 10 sites · $149/month per additional site
For scheme and retailer audits
Enterprise
$349/month/site
Or $3,350/year per site · save 20%
- Everything in Professional
- SQF, GFSI, FSSC 22000 & BRCGS scheme workflows
- Retailer audit-cycle tracking
- Automatic audit pack generation
- 15 seats included
- Up to 10 sites · $349/month per additional site
All prices in AUD, per site. Billed monthly or annually. No lock-in contracts.
Guides for childcare kitchens
Know what the auditor expects
Plain-English guides to the rules behind your kitchen records.
Childcare food safety programs in VictoriaClass 1, the program, the supervisor and the audit
Childcare food and menusWhat National Regulations 77–80 require
Allergy management in childcare kitchensThe kitchen records behind each plan
Childcare kitchen food safety checklistCheck your kitchen before the auditor does
Common questions
Questions from
childcare centres.
In Victoria, child care centres providing long day care that serve potentially hazardous food are usually class 1 food premises. Your council assigns the class. Class 1 premises need a food safety program written for the site, a food safety supervisor, an annual council check and an annual audit by an approved auditor.
Your food safety program under Victorian food law and Standard 3.3.1, and the food rules in the Education and Care Services National Regulations: safe food practices (regulation 77), water and food (regulations 78 and 79) and the weekly menu (regulation 80). Confirm your exact obligations with your council and regulatory authority.
Each child has a dietary record with their allergies and diet needs, and every change is logged with who made it and when. The kitchen checks meals against those records before service. EthicalHub supports your medical conditions policy and each child’s risk minimisation plan; it doesn’t replace them.
Yes. Temperatures, cleaning and deliveries are logged on any phone or tablet in seconds, and each record shows who made it and when.
Yes. Every plan is priced per centre. Essentials covers up to 3 centres, and Professional and Enterprise cover up to 10, with each extra centre at the same per-centre price. Book a walkthrough and we’ll confirm the right plan for your number of centres.
One click exports a record for any date range: temperature logs, menus, allergy checks, cleaning sign-offs, training and supplier certificates, in under 60 seconds.
Every meal safe.
Every record ready.
Book a free 20-minute walkthrough. We’ll show you what your kitchen records look like today, and what your auditor will ask for next.
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