ParkSyde Learning
Victoria
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Victoria grants home education registration through VRQA. No one visits your home, and no curriculum is mandated.
What Victoria actually asks of you
Every line below is checked against VRQA's own pages and the legislation, not summarised from another state.
- Who decides
- VRQA — Statutory authority responsible to the Ministers for Education, Skills and TAFE, and Economic Growth
- What you apply for
- home education registration
- Legal basis
- Education and Training Reform Act 2006 (Vic), s2.1.1 (parental duty to enrol or register for home schooling, ages 6–17), s2.1.2A (offence for failing to provide instruction once registered), s4.3.9 (the Authority — VRQA — may register a student for home schooling, and may cancel for non-compliance or refusing a program review), read together with the Education and Training Reform Regulations 2017 (Vic) for the operative registration, learning-area, learning-plan, review and cancellation detail. The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA) sets the Victorian Curriculum F–10 but has no role in home-schooling registration — that sits with VRQA alone.
- What you submit first
- learning plan
- Ongoing evidence
- annual continuation check, plus review for a 10% sample
- Visits
- None required
- How long it lasts
- Ongoing, reconfirmed annually by email; ends automatically at the end of the year the child turns 18
- Assessed against
- Australian Curriculum v9 — the codes on every ParkSyde unit are the ones your assessor reads
What the package includes
- The full Prep–12 curriculum — every unit and lesson, all learning areas
- Progressive Diagnostics with strand-level tailoring for each child
- A professional Learning Start consultation each year
- Family account: every sibling, every device, synced
- Evidence shaped for your learning plan
Where Victoria differs, in detail
The specifics a product built for one state gets wrong everywhere else.
- No curriculum is required at all — not the Victorian Curriculum, not AC v9 — so a UI that requires selecting or mapping to any curriculum's codes as a condition of the Victorian learning plan misrepresents the law; AC v9 codes may only ever be offered as a voluntary aid here.
- Renewal is a lightweight annual 'are you still home schooling?' email, not a re-application or re-assessment — don't model it with the same weight as initial registration.
- The review that does happen (≈10% of registrations, sampled) explicitly does not assess the child or curriculum-outcome coverage — only whether the 8-learning-area requirement was addressed — a QLD-style 'evidence of AC v9 outcome coverage' framing would overstate what VRQA actually checks.
- No home visits occur at any point — review is desktop or phone/video only, and only for the sampled minority, not universally at registration or renewal.
- Two separate statutory bodies are involved with no functional overlap for home schooling: VRQA registers, VCAA merely authors a curriculum nobody is required to use.
Who decides — not us
Victorian Registration and Qualifications Authority — Statutory authority responsible to the Ministers for Education, Skills and TAFE, and Economic Growth. +61 3 9637 2806 (option 2, then 1).
ParkSyde is not a school and issues no credential. We teach, and we keep the record. VRQA decides your registration.
VRQA— the authority's own page →Checked against primary sources on 2026-09-03. 7 sources on file.
$119 a month for your first learner, $79 for each sibling — the same in every state. The packages differ in the paperwork they produce, not the price.