Connect Childcare

Outstanding nursery management software

Connect Childcare's outstanding nursery management software will streamline your processes and rapidly reduce your admin time. It is helping nurseries like yours to manage tax free Childcare and the 30 hour funding with ease. The Connect Childcare system is not only flexible; it is accurate, secure and reliable.

Software solutions

Nursery managers need eyes in the back of their heads and the ability to be everywhere at once. The pressures never cease with the responsibility for staff, children and mountains of administration work falling on their shoulders. 

Connect Childcare’s comprehensive nursery management software eases the burden on nursery managers and administrators, and allow them to focus on developing the children in their care.

Connect Childcare is packed with features to make nursery management more efficient.

Connect Childcare makes invoicing quick and easy with the ability to accurately invoice entire sites in just minutes. You can view outstanding invoices at a glance and quickly and easily set up payment plans or record ad-hoc payments. Bank reconciliation will streamline processes even further and you now have the option to set up and collect direct debit payments with Connect Cashflow.

iConnect

iConnect is the award-winning online learning journal software for practitioners. It enables staff to save hours each week and reduces the need to spend time away from their key children. 

Many childcare professionals struggle under the increasing pressure to complete mountains of paperwork to satisfy Ofsted. But it doesn’t have to be such a laborious process. 

The introduction of iConnect on tablets in a setting can save hours of time, and allow practitioners to focus on their passion; nurturing and developing the children in their care. 

Observations can be done instantly on tablets and all of the information is stored safely, ready to access again when needed for assessments and checks. These observations can be linked to the EYFS, Curriculum for Excellence, Pre Birth to Three and many other frameworks. 

Daily activities like sleep, meals and nappies are recorded quickly and easily and online learning journeys can be sent straight out to parents and carers via ParentZone. 

But it’s not just for learning journals, key workers can carry out all of their admin tasks; from assessments to planning and next steps. iConnect is used by thousands of nurseries across the UK and there are over 700,000 observations logged each month.

ParentZone

ParentZone helps providers to work in partnership with parents, which is a key Ofsted requirement. 

ParentZone is a smartphone app for parents and a fantastic tool for nursery practitioners to communicate with parents and encourage them to contribute towards their child’s learning. Parents will never miss a moment of their child's development again with regular notifications of their child's activities and achievements.

In an ideal world, every parent and practitioner would have time to have a chat about their children each day at pick up time, but as you know, this is not always possible. Through ParentZone, busy parents can check in and view their child’s daily activities and wow moments when it is most convenient for them.  

Parents are encouraged to comment on observations posted to their child’s learning journey so they can directly communicate with the nursery. They can even upload their own observations, contributing to their child’s learning journey and strengthening their bond with the staff and setting.