Education and care centres offer full-day or sessional (up to four hours a day) care and are open for up to eight or nine hours (between 7:00am and 6:00pm).
Some centres offer care in morning or afternoon sessions. Usually, care is charged on the basis of a weekly or daily fee - an hourly fee applies for casual care. Centres are licensed to take either under two-year-olds, over two-year-olds or a mix of both age groups. These include both standard facilities and specialist childcare centres such as those run by Montessori and Rudolph Steiner schools.
