About Us
We are a family-run business operating out of the beautiful Sunshine Coast in Queensland. Our products are all designed in Australia right here on the coast.
Our main feature is the continuation of taking your feedback and tailoring our diaries to suit your specific role, state regs or other requirements. We are constantly evolving our products to suit you.
Our diaries and other resources take the guess-work out of documentation. They are designed for your industry with feedback and input from your industry, so they nail it for assessments & ratings and general compliance.
Butler Diaries is one of the earliest and most respected suppliers of childcare resources in Australia today. What began as a project to assist childcare providers streamline their paperwork and meet industry standards has become a business dedicated to providing peace of mind to all kinds of sectors drawing from learning frameworks and quality standards under the NQS.
Since 2013
Leona has many years of experience in branding, marketing and graphic design for educational institutions, training organisations and conferences. She understands the education sector and has worked with early childhood providers and trainers, schools, TAFEs, universities, training organisations, conference organisers and accreditation organisations.
Back in 2013, one of her marketing clients was a childcare provider and asked her to design a diary for them – the rest is history.
Timeline
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2012
The request
The Childcare service and training organisation Leona was working for wanted a diary for ECEC Centres and the Childcare Centre Diary was designed.
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2013
Butler Creative Childcare Resources was Born
Rather than just designing the diary for the one service, we thought it would be beneficial for all services around Australia, so Butler Creative Childcare Resources was born - helping the ECEC sector with tailored resources just for them. There were plenty of teacher resources out there but not many for Early Childhood.
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2014
The Family Day Care Diary
In conjunction with a local FDC Scheme, we created the original Family Day Care Diary, which was for compliance and record keeping.
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2015
Three More Diaries Added
This year saw the design of the OSHC Diary, and the two best selling Weekly Programming and Reflection Diaries. One for EYLF and one for OSHC.
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2016
More Diaries Added!
This year saw the addition of the Queensland Kindy Diary and the Australian Nanny Diary. We also continued to create ECEC products like posters and Transition to School books.
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2016-2026
Continued to grow
Over the next 10 years, we have continued to grow, adding more and more titles and products, based on your feedback. We review each diary yearly and make sure it is the best it can be and meeting updated regs and frameworks.
The Butler Diaries Team
You may have spoken with Leona Butler our founder and owner of the store, she has years of experience in design and marketing, and also used to work in Family Day Care and has a deep knowledge of the industry.
You may have also encountered the lovely Christine, our Customer Service Manager, we welcomed her aboard last year and have enjoyed her meticulous attention to detail and friendly assistance to our customers. Christine worked in an ECEC service and ran a tradie business so covers off those two industries as well.
And last but not least is Leona's son Joe, our warehouse manager. He makes sure your parcels are packed and sent off so you get your orders in a timely manner.
We are a small but efficient team who love what we do and want to make sure your experience with us is the best!
