Learn & Laugh Enrolment Information
Our Centres
When managing centre waitlist's Learn & Laugh are responsible for following the priority of access guidelines stating that working parents / studying parents / parents with disabilities are given priority.
To place your child’s name on our waiting list, please use the links provided on the Our Centres page, for the centre you wish to enrol.
There is no charge involved with placing your name on our waiting list.
As our licensed numbers are limited, we are unable to guarantee placement to all applicants.
Opportunities to view the centre can be made available, please contact the centre’s director.
Once a place becomes available you will be contacted by the centre’s director and a position will be offered to you.
We look forward to meeting you and your child(ren)!
Fees are due from the first day of enrolment to the last day of enrolment.
The only exception is on days the centre is closed. We do not charge fees for public holidays.
Payments of Fees are processed fortnightly on a Thursday, a week in advance; and include fees for 2 weeks; the current week and the following week.
Learn & Laugh send invoices at the beginning of payment week, to allow families to have enough time to prepare for the transaction on Thursday.
From July 2023, it became a Government requirement that the gap fee must be paid electronically. At Learn and Laugh, all fees are paid by direct debit through OWNA (including credit cards).
If you have any concerns or queries regarding your account, please contact us.
Please refer to our fee policy/parent handbook for more information regarding our required notice period, fees for absent-first/absent-last days and absent days in general.
OWNA is a government-approved software that links us, the childcare provider, to ‘Services Australia’/Centrelink.
Once the family’s records match those of centrelink, a formal enrolment is established, and all of the attendance records are systematically updated with Centrelink automatically.
We, the child care provider, send attendances at the end of each week. Once the records get processed, the benefits are then applied to the parents’ account and only the gap fees are charged to the family.
Linking Your Child/Children’s Records to Centrelink:
In order to establish the necessary link, we will require you to provide us with following details:
This system allows for automatic up-dates between our service and Centrelink. This includes any changes to benefits you may receive and your elected method of these payments etc.
If you have not done so already please contact Services Australia on 136 150 and ask to be assessed for CCS.
Having a CRN is not enough to establish the mentioned link; each family must be assessed per child in order to “activate” the process.
What is Start Strong
The Start Strong Funding 2026 is a New South Wales Government initiative to make preschool education more affordable and accessible for families. It is part of the broader Affordable Preschool Program, which supports early childhood education in the years leading up to primary school.
What do you get?
The department provides up to $4,456 in Fee Relief Payment for 3- to 5-year-old children enrolled at an approved preschool. Funding available is calculated on the number of hours a child is enrolled at the service and the demographics of child and service.
The fee relief can be granted to families with children aged 4 on or before July 31, 2026.
Families with children aged 3 years old on or before 31 July 2026 can also receive some fee relief (lower amount).
The funding is in addition to CCS rebates.
How to apply
Once you enrol at Learn & Laugh children’s centre, our team will provide you with an application form to complete. Once the Start Strong 2026 form is completed our team will apply to your account on a fortnightly basis.
Please note
You can only receive Start Strong at one childcare service.
Enrol and commence at the start of the year to receive a full year of funding.
