The Top 3 Childcare Centres in Keysborough, VIC (3173)

Great Beginnings Keysborough is on Cheltenham Road, run by the national G8 Education group. It opens 6:30am to 6:30pm on weekdays and its website lists early education and a kindergarten program for children from six weeks to school age. The service is also approved for outside school hours and vacation care.

Its August 2026 assessment is the most recent of any long day care service in the suburb, Meeting in each quality area, as in January 2023. Three conditions apply to its approval: a playground and barrier standard, a requirement to keep natural elements in the outdoor spaces, and a requirement that all staff know the supervision plan and risk assessment for the ground-floor outdoor space. No enforcement action was recorded in the past two years.

The fee is $170.75 a day up to 35 months and $164.20 from 36 months, with eight inclusions listed on Starting Blocks.

Great Beginnings takes first after finishing level with Nest on the measures that come before reviews. Their ratings are four months apart, which counts as a tie; Nest is cheaper but lists one inclusion fewer, which leaves fees level; and both open for twelve hours with a similar number of places. With nothing else separating them, reviews decide: 4.6 from 38 against 5.0 from 18, a base more than one and a half times larger with a rating gap under half a star. Note the three conditions on its approval before you visit.

Nest Early Learning and Kindergarten runs from Redwood Drive with 128 approved places and opens 6:30am to 6:30pm on weekdays. Its website lists a nursery from six weeks, toddler rooms, and kindergarten programs for three- and four-year-olds.

The April 2026 assessment, its first, placed it at Meeting in each of the seven quality areas; the service approval dates from December 2024. One condition applies to the approval: objects must not be placed where a child could climb a barrier or fence, and outdoor play equipment must meet the Australian playground standard AS 4685.

At $152.00 a day at every age, with seven inclusions listed, it charges the least of the three centres on this page.

Nest is second. Against Great Beginnings it is level on everything before reviews, and its 5.0 from 18 sits behind a base of 38 that is more than one and a half times larger. It finishes ahead of Bilbies because its April 2026 rating is 14 months newer at the same level, and stays ahead of the Freedom Club, which it already outranked: it opens an hour earlier and closes an hour later, but gaps of that size are not wide enough to decide practical fit.

Bilbies ELC & Kinder is a family-owned centre on Chapel Road, approved for 120 places and open 7:00am to 6:30pm on weekdays, 52 weeks a year. Its website describes a program combining the Montessori curriculum with play-based learning under the Early Years Learning Framework, for children from six weeks to six years, with Victorian Government-funded kindergarten.

February 2025 brought a Meeting result in each quality area at its first assessment. The approval carries the same playground and barrier condition as Nest's, and there has been no enforcement action in the past two years.

The fee is $157.65 a day at every age, with eight inclusions listed on Starting Blocks.

Bilbies takes third. Its February 2025 rating ties the Keysborough Freedom Club (April 2025) and Keysborough Community Children's Centre (May 2024). Against the Freedom Club fees come out level; against the Community Children's Centre, which has no fee table on Starting Blocks, fees could not be compared. Against the Community Children's Centre, practical fit separates them: Bilbies has 120 places against 76. Against the Freedom Club, Bilbies closes at 6:30pm, an hour later, which is not a wide enough gap to decide, so with the pair level Bilbies keeps the place it already held. It sits below Nest and Great Beginnings because their 2026 ratings are more than a year newer.