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Open Kinder Check
Families scan the kinder poster once or save the kinder to their home screen. No shared kiosk is required.
Built for Victorian sessional kinders
A calmer way to collect attendance — without the kiosk queue.
Kinder Check lets authorised parents and carers sign children in and out on their own phones. Staff get a live operational view, a traceable attendance history and tools designed to work alongside Victoria's Arrival reporting model.
Parents use their own phone PIN-authenticated sign-in and sign-out Live attendance board for staff Arrival Template 2 support
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Families
Already using Kinder Check?
Find your kinder and open its sign-in page.
For kinders
Designed around the front door, the office and the attendance record.
Kinder Check is not just a parent sign-in screen. It gives educators and administrators a shared operational picture of the day.
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Identify with mobile + PIN
The family's registered mobile number identifies the carer. A private PIN is used for future visits.
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Confirm drop-off or pick-up
Only children the carer is authorised for are shown. The action is time-stamped and added to the audit history.
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Staff see the live day
Educators can see who is here, away, gone home, late, leaving early or still needs attention.
Operational tools
What the kinder gets
Children, carers and permissions
Maintain the people connected to each child, primary carers, relationships and separate drop-off and pick-up authority.
Live attendance board
A single staff view of expected children, arrivals, departures, absences, early pick-ups and unresolved attendance.
Corrections with history
Staff can correct times without silently replacing the story. Attendance events preserve the action and correction history.
Away today
Families can report an absence from their phone, reducing calls and giving educators a cleaner picture before the session starts.
Daily office report
Scheduled daily summaries can include attendance, absences, early pick-ups and children who have not been signed out.
Exports for records and handover
Admins can export service data, and the Arrival area generates enrolment data using the Department's Template 2 structure.
Role-based staff access
Kinder admins and educators use named staff accounts. Sensitive Arrival enrolment information is restricted to admins.
Built around real kinder mornings
Sibling pre-selection, current-time defaults, early pick-up notes and staff-on-behalf actions keep the flow quick when the door is busy.
Victoria / Arrival
Designed to work alongside Arrival, not replace it.
Arrival remains the Department of Education's mandatory system for kindergarten program and enrolment reporting. The Department also supports third-party software pathways for attendance data and publishes enrolment upload templates for software vendors.
Available in Kinder Check nowArrival Template 2 enrolment workflow
- Imports the official 51-column Template 2 for services using an alternative attendance system.
- Checks required fields, Department reference values and supported conditional rules before export.
- Shows which enrolments are ready, need information or have not yet been imported.
- Exports only ready rows back into the exact Template 2 column structure.
- Keeps Arrival-specific sensitive enrolment data separate from everyday attendance records.
- Records import and export activity for administrative audit purposes.
Direct attendance integration is the next pathway.
Kinder Check is not currently represented as Department-approved or directly integrated with Arrival. Direct submission remains subject to Department onboarding, security requirements and the relevant data-sharing/integration process.
For Department review
A transparent starting point for a software-provider conversation.
Kinder Check has been deliberately structured so a pilot can demonstrate the service's attendance model without claiming an approval that has not yet been granted.
Child, date/time, authenticated carer or staff actor, authorisation context, absence handling, corrections and event history.
Template 2 import, validation, readiness and exact-column export for services using an alternative attendance system.
The product roadmap targets the Department's existing third-party attendance data-sharing pathway rather than creating a parallel reporting destination.
Security, privacy & records
Built to make sensitive kindergarten information deliberate, not casual.
Arrival enrolment data can include considerably more sensitive information than a daily attendance list. Kinder Check separates those workflows and limits who can access them.
Controlled access
Parents only see children linked to them. Staff access is authenticated and scoped to their kinder; Arrival enrolment data is admin-only.
Traceable attendance
Sign-in, sign-out, absence, undo and correction events are retained as a history instead of being reduced to a single mutable timestamp.
Purpose-separated records
Daily attendance and additional Arrival enrolment information are stored separately so the service does not expose sensitive enrolment fields in everyday workflows.
Privacy and retention controls
Kinder Check includes public Privacy and Terms pages, service-level exports and a retention framework for attendance records.
Pilot-ready
Start with one kinder and prove the workflow properly.
The MVP is designed for a controlled Victorian sessional-kinder pilot: get families using the own-phone experience, give staff a live attendance view and validate the records against the Department-approved reporting process.
Talk about a pilot- 1
Set up the service, rooms and staff accounts.
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Import existing children, carers and attendance days.
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Give families the kinder QR poster and setup invitation.
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Run the own-phone attendance workflow with staff oversight.
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Import or complete Arrival Template 2 enrolment information.
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Reconcile the pilot against the Department-approved reporting process while integration requirements are confirmed.
Common questions
Clear answers before a service starts
Does Kinder Check replace Arrival?
No. Kinder Check is intended to simplify day-to-day attendance collection and work alongside Arrival. Mandatory Department reporting remains in Arrival.
Is Kinder Check already Department-approved?
No. The current product is pilot-ready and supports the published enrolment template, but direct attendance integration and any formal approval remain subject to Department review.
Do families need an app-store download?
No. The parent flow runs in the browser and can be saved to the phone's home screen. Families use their registered mobile number and PIN.
What happens if a parent cannot use their phone?
Staff retain the ability to sign a child in or out on behalf of the family, with the staff action and reason recorded.
Can the service export its data?
Yes. Admins have service-data export tools, and the Arrival area can export enrolment rows that pass the supported Template 2 checks.
What about presence verification?
The MVP authenticates the carer and records their confirmation. Additional presence controls such as a short-lived entrance QR can be added if required by the Department or pilot policy.
Kinder Check
Get in touchMake the morning easier without losing the record.
Own-phone attendance for families, a live operational view for educators, and an Arrival-ready direction for Victorian sessional kinders.