The Top 3 Childcare Centres in Truganina, VIC (3029)

Truganina YMCA Early Learning Centre sits on Federation Boulevard next to Truganina South Primary School and is operated by YMCA Victoria, a not-for-profit provider. The centre is licensed for 80 places and accepts children from six weeks to school age across nursery, toddler and kindergarten rooms. It is open from 6:30am to 6:30pm on weekdays. At its most recent assessment in July 2023 it was rated Exceeding National Quality Standard, with five of the seven quality areas rated Exceeding, which no other centre on this page matches.

The program is play-based and built around dedicated STEM, music and language areas, with a vegetable garden used to teach children about sustainability. Funded three-year-old and four-year-old kindergarten programs run within long day care hours and are led by bachelor-qualified early childhood teachers, which gives families a kindergarten option without a separate enrolment. It is operated by the YMCA, a not-for-profit, unlike the private operators ranked alongside it.

The daily fee is $160.50 at every age, with six inclusions listed on the register, and the register showed openings Monday to Friday for the week beginning 19 October. The centre's Google rating sits at 4.1 from 23 reviews, below Little Learners' 4.6 from 39; read recent reviews and tour in person before deciding. Children's health and safety and Staffing arrangements were both rated Exceeding at the 2023 assessment, while Physical environment and Governance and leadership were rated Meeting.

The YMCA ranks first on its rating. Neither centre ranked below it holds Exceeding; it has five of seven quality areas above the standard, and under our method a higher rating level comes before fees, reviews or program. The not-for-profit model, the funded three and four-year-old kindergarten, and the STEM and sustainability focus give it a distinct, education-led character. Two things to weigh before you enrol. Its July 2023 assessment is the oldest of the three, two years before Little Learners' and almost three before Child's Play Truganina's. And its Google rating of 4.1 from 23 reviews trails Little Learners' 4.6, so tour in person. The daily rate is $160.50 at every age, with six inclusions listed.

Little Learners Day Care Centre is on Perennial Drive, at the corner of Forsyth and Sayers roads, and is approved for 148 places, the most of the three centres on this page. It is open 6:30am to 6:30pm on weekdays and, according to its centre page, takes children from six months to six years. The service has held its approval since March 2016 and also runs vacation care.

Its July 2025 assessment returned Meeting in all seven quality areas, the same overall result as in June 2022. A regulatory visit in August 2026 preceded a clean two-year record with no enforcement actions. One condition sits on the approval: no more than nine cots may be permanently set up in the indoor space.

The daily fee is $142.00 at every age, with eight inclusions listed on the register. The itemised list was not captured for this page, so ask what the rate covers. Its website advertises a government-approved kindergarten program for three and four-year-olds, with vacancies on all five weekdays when the register was read.

Little Learners is second because it wins every head-to-head on this page except the one with the YMCA, whose Exceeding rating sits a level higher. Against Child's Play Truganina the ratings are nine months apart, a tie, and Little Learners takes fees: $142.00 in every age band against $153.00 to $155.00, with eight inclusions listed at both. Capacity is level, 148 places against 130. Greenfield is cheaper at $135.00, but Little Learners has 148 places to its 120, and with those split, review depth decides: 39 Google reviews at 4.6 against 18 at 5.0. Ask how its kinder program fits within the long day and what the eight inclusions are.

Child's Play Truganina is on Perpetual Street, holding approval for 130 places, and opens 6:30am to 6:30pm on weekdays. Its centre page describes rooms for babies, toddlers and kindergarten children, from six weeks to six years, with funded three and four-year-old kinder delivered inside the centre. A family-owned group with eight Victorian centres runs it.

The service changed hands on 4 August 2025. Its April 2026 assessment, the first under the current operator, was Meeting in every quality area; the March 2023 Meeting rating before it belongs to the previous operator. The regulator visited in February 2026, and no enforcement actions appear for the past two years.

Two conditions apply to the approval, both about the outdoor space: climbable objects must be kept away from barriers and fences, with play equipment maintained to the Australian Playground Standard, and natural elements must be kept in the yards. The register shows $155.00 a day, dropping to $153.00 for 25 to 35 months, with eight inclusions, and casual and permanent places on all five weekdays for the week starting 19 October 2026. Its Google listing could not be matched to this street address, so no review figure is shown.

Child's Play Truganina takes third on fees and size. NextGen Montessori, rated three months later in July 2026, ties it on the rating, and Child's Play then wins both remaining tests that separate them: it is cheaper in all four age bands ($153.00 to $155.00 with eight inclusions listed, against $172.00 to $174.00 with none) and has 130 places to NextGen's 100. Cheeky Clouds, rated a year earlier, is also a tie on the rating; their fees are level once all four bands are compared, and Child's Play's 130 places against 102 settle it. Note before enrolling that the current operator has run the centre only since August 2025, and that two outdoor-safety conditions sit on the approval.