Established in 1895, KU is Australia's leading provider of not for profit, community-based early childhood education. With nearly 150 high quality services throughout Australia, KU enriches the lives of over 15,000 children and their families each year through services ranging from preschools to long day care, out of school hours care, vacation care, occasional care, family programs and other early childhood education services.

KU believes that every family should be able to access affordable, high quality early childhood education and care for their children.

A range of high quality early childhood programs
KU provides programs for more than 12,500 families and over 14,000 children throughout Australia.

Our range of programs has continued to grow to meet the ever changing needs of children, families and the community, and includes programs as diverse as preschool education and care, work-based child care, vacation and occasional care, family programs and early language and literacy initiatives.

Each of our programs is based on the latest research and practice in early childhood education - an area that we continue to pursue and support through our involvement in research initiatives and our highly regarded Professional Development program.