Workforce Readiness Scorecard
Check your team’s regulation and inclusion capability.
Use this scorecard to reflect on whether your team feels confident supporting regulation, movement, sensory needs, play and participation in community settings.
This is a planning reflection tool, not a clinical assessment, audit, government readiness test or Thriving Kids policy tool.
Complete the scorecard
Answer honestly based on your current team confidence.
There are no perfect answers. The purpose is to see where your team may need more shared language, practical training or implementation support.
1. Our team can recognise when a child is becoming dysregulated before behaviour escalates.
2. Our team understands how movement, sensory load, fatigue, body awareness and emotional safety can affect a child’s participation.
3. Our team has shared language for talking about regulation and participation without using labels or diagnosis.
4. Our staff can adapt indoor and outdoor spaces so children can participate more safely and confidently.
5. Our staff can use simple movement, play and sensory strategies when a child is overwhelmed, withdrawn, avoidant or seeking movement.
6. Our team can support tricky transitions such as arriving, leaving, packing up, moving between indoor and outdoor spaces, or joining a shared activity.
7. Our staff can have compassionate conversations with families when a child is finding participation difficult.
8. Our staff can share evidence-informed child development information with families in plain language, without overwhelming or blaming them.
9. Our team can suggest realistic home or community strategies that fit family life and stay within non-clinical role boundaries.
10. Our organisation can document common participation barriers across programs without turning this into diagnosis.
11. Our organisation can support staff to use a consistent regulation and inclusion framework across teams, programs or sites.
12. Our organisation can explain how staff confidence in regulation, movement, sensory needs, play and participation will be built and supported over time.
13. Our organisation can clearly explain why regulation, movement, sensory, play and participation support belongs in our workforce capability planning.
14. Our organisation can describe how Play Move Improve would strengthen staff confidence, family support and practical non-diagnostic participation support.
What to do with your result
Use this as a planning conversation starter.
The result is not a formal score. It is a simple way to identify where your team may need more confidence, shared language and practical support.
Strengthen consistency
Focus on shared language, documentation, onboarding and consistency across staff, sites or programs.
Open wording libraryBuild a shared framework
Your team may benefit from practical regulation and inclusion training so support does not rely on individual worker confidence.
View certification pathwayPlan capability support
Use your priority gaps to explain why your team needs regulation, movement, sensory, play and participation training.
Build planning wordingReady to build clearer regulation and inclusion capability?
Use your result to guide planning wording, staff training conversations and the certification pathway.