Assessment & Rating Readiness or just everyday confidence!

Be Ready Before the Assessor Walks In.

Our Mock Assessment Visit replicates the Assessment and Rating process, giving your leadership team a clear picture of how your service is currently performing across the National Quality Standard.

We help identify strengths, opportunities, risks and priority actions — so your team can move from reactive and unsure to calm, clear and confident.

Full-day
On-site Visit

Detailed 
Report

Quality Area
Ratings

Follow-up
Strategy Call

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We have conducted over 100 Mock Assessments across Independent Private schools, OSHC, Private services, community-based sites, council run sites, Education department sites and corporate sector.

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Mock Assessment

A Fresh Set of Eyes. A Clearer Path Forward.

Why Book a Mock Assessment?

Why Book a Mock Assessment?
Confidence Comes From Clarity

Small gaps in systems, documentation, environments or team practice can quickly impact your Assessment and Rating outcome, team confidence, family trust and service reputation. A Mock Assessment gives you an independent, practical review before someone else walks through the door.

It helps your service understand:

  • Where you are performing strongly
  • Where practice may be inconsistent
  • What an assessor may notice
  • Which actions should be prioritised
  • How to support your team to feel prepared

This is not about fear. It is about clarity, confidence and practical improvement.

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Why Book a Mock Assessment?
Your Mock Assessment Visit Includes
  • Full-day on-site assessment
  • Assessment and Rating-style review across all Quality Areas
  • Quality Area ratings to benchmark current performance
  • Review of environments, documentation, systems and practice
  • Team and leadership feedback
  • Detailed report outlining strengths, opportunities and priority actions
  • Practical recommendations you can immediately implement
  • One-hour follow-up strategy session

Optional note

Reports are designed to be practical, clear and action-focused — not overwhelming.

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Who Is This Ideal For?
Is This Right for Your Service?

A Mock Assessment is ideal if your service:

  • Has Assessment and Rating approaching
  • Wants an independent perspective on current practice
  • Is unsure how the service is tracking against the NQS
  • Wants to build leadership and team confidence
  • Needs clarity around improvement priorities
  • Is already performing well but wants reassurance
  • Wants practical feedback before a formal visit

Strong line to include

The services that get the most value are not always the ones struggling. Often, they are strong services who want confidence they are focusing on the right things.

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Why Services Choose HGT EDU
Practical Insight From People Who Have Actually Led Services

Our consultants have worked as educators, teachers, centre leaders, regional managers, trainers, coaches and validators.

HGT EDU Founder, Michelle Walsh, was a Validator many moons ago and was involved in the early trialling of the National Quality Framework. Since then, Michelle and the HGT EDU team have conducted countless Mock Assessments and supported services through Assessment and Rating, compliance challenges, leadership transitions and quality improvement journeys.

We know what assessors look for because we have worked inside the sector at every level.

Our team is highly skilled at noticing the things busy services often miss, including:

  • Gaps in systems
  • Inconsistent practice
  • Environmental risks
  • Documentation concerns
  • Compliance blind spots
  • Leadership habits impacting quality
  • Team patterns that may affect outcomes

Most importantly, we understand that quality is not built through more paperwork.
It is built through strong systems, capable leaders, clear expectations and consistent practice.

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Book Your Mock Assessment Visit



Have you received your notice of A&R?

We have more and more services getting in contact about A&R so we have created a quick information session to unpack everything A&R so you can feel prepared and ready!

The visitwill cover off your next steps to get you prepared, including:

  • QIP
  • Self-Assessment Tool
  • Policy review
  • Compliance

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Happy Clients

Real Services. Real Impact

Hear directly from early learning leaders and educators who’ve strengthened quality, team capability, and confidence through working alongside HGT EDU.

We had a “Pre-Assessment and Rating Monitoring Visit” from the ESB last week. If it wasn’t for the Growth leadership sessions we have been attending from the very beginning I don’t believe we would have done so well.

The discussions, information sharing and opportunities for reflection are invaluable! A huge thank you to Michelle!

— Early Childhood Service, SA

I can’t speak highly enough of the HGT Quality Partnership; it has been so valuable for our service and we are so excited to continue to grow and evolve as time goes on. I really enjoy the Quality Code Meetings and feel there is so much to be explored within these sessions. I think they’re really helpful to touch base, ask questions and unpack training or changes to regulations, etc and love that they’ve been included as part of the Partnership.

— Tahnee – Aldinga community

There is no way we would have got through the spot check without you and our HGT Quality Partnership.

I will definitely be signing up again because it is so impactful’.

— Teeka – Aberfoyle Hub Community

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Not sure if a mock assessment is the
right path for you yet?

Book a short Discovery Call and we’ll help you decide whether your service needs a Mock Assessment, Compliance Audit or another support pathway.

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