One partner to design, build, staff, train & operate childcare across the Kingdom.
Whole Child® is an integrated development, construction, and early-childhood operating company with 20+ years building and running our own premium centers, not just consulting on them. Here is exactly what we deliver.
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WHO WE ARE
Whole Child® creates, builds, operates, and grows premium childcare centers. Our foundation is unusual: we come from a successful background developing, owning, and operating our own centers, not simply consulting or constructing them. We combine real-estate development expertise (US & EU projects exceeding $500M) with deep operational knowledge of every aspect of childcare, from site selection and purpose-built design through staffing, training, licensing, curriculum, and long-term operational excellence.
Why it matters: unlike firms that only build facilities or provide consulting, we have developed, owned, and operated our own centers and achieved successful exits. Every system we deliver is real-world tested. We don’t just know how to build childcare centers, we know how to build successful childcare businesses.
Development & Construction
- Strategic site selection & market/demographic analysis
- Feasibility studies & master planning
- Architecture & interior design
- Construction management & engineering coordination
- Government licensing & inspection readiness
Operations & Education
- Executive director, teacher & staff recruitment
- Director & teacher manuals, parent handbooks, SOPs
- 400+ educational books, curriculum & lesson plans
- Quality assurance systems
- Long-term operational excellence
SAUDI CHILDCARE DELIVERY ROADMAP
A standardized portfolio of childcare / early-years schools in three prototype sizes (~30, ~100, ~250 children) across Saudi Arabia’s 13 administrative regions, delivered under a government partnership, opened in phased waves and fully operational within two years. Success rests on standardized prototype designs, parallel regional construction waves, and a single program-management backbone.
Scope of Work & Delivery Steps
| Workstream | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Q5 | Q6 | Q7 | Q8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gov’t framework & prototype design | ||||||||
| Region / city / site selection | ||||||||
| Master plan finalization | ||||||||
| Budgets & procurement strategy | ||||||||
| Stand up PMO / Ops / construction | ||||||||
| Procurement & ordering (FF&E) | ||||||||
| Construction - Wave 1 (pilot) | ||||||||
| Construction - Waves 2–4 | ||||||||
| Licensing & staffing (HRSD / MoE) | ||||||||
| Phased openings (school-by-school) |
Program-Management Backbone
- Steering / Oversight — governs the program, owns the government relationship, gates between waves.
- PMO — central backbone: scope, per-school budgets, master schedule, procurement, reporting.
- Construction Delivery — single main contractor or regional panel running waves in parallel.
Supply & Launch
- Procurement & Supply — bulk-buys FF&E, toys, materials under framework agreements; site logistics.
- Launch & Operations — HRSD/MoE licensing, staffing, one-by-one openings and handover to operations.
- Pilot Cohort — Wave 1 de-risks the prototype before full rollout.
PROPOSED CENTER DESIGNS
Purpose-built prototypes in three capacities, each engineered to the MHRSD Regulatory Controls for Private Childcare Centers (1443 AH / 2021) and aligned with Vision 2030, modern, safe, sustainable, and stimulating. Standardization is what makes parallel national rollout possible.
Age Categories & Ratios (Flagship)
- Infants (newborn–2 yrs): capacity 40 · ratio 1:4 · ≥1.4 m²/child (Art. 14)
- Toddlers (2–4 yrs): capacity 75 · ratio 1:8 · ≥1.8 m²/child
- Preschool (4–6 yrs) & School-age (6–10 yrs) groups
- Licensed & supervised by MHRSD (Cabinet Res. No. 45)
Built-In Standards
- Safe & secure · sustainable design · learning through play
- Separate meal-prep areas for infants and older groups
- Safe sleep area, cribs, infant hygiene
- Indoor games hall & shaded outdoor patio
OPERATIONS SYSTEMS & MANUALS
Our operating backbone is a comprehensive, field-proven childcare operations system refined over 20+ years running our own licensed centers in the United States, now adapted and fine-tuned for the Kingdom’s regulatory framework. It is the difference between a building and a working center.
- Institutional maturity - a complete, documented operating system, not improvisation.
- Real-world tested - every procedure has run live centers, paused bad inspections, and trained real directors.
- Saudi-ready - already mapped to MHRSD ratios, room standards, and licensing requirements.
What The Manual Covers
- Daily operations & management; enrollment & family lifecycle
- Curriculum & programming; health & safety; emergency preparedness
- Ratios & facility standards; human resources & staffing
- Licensing & compliance; facilities & equipment
Standards-Readiness
Our current US ratios already align with, or exceed, Saudi HRSD requirements: infants 1:4 (HRSD newborn–2: 1:4), twos 1:8 (2–4 yrs), preschool 1:10, older 1:20. A field-proven system that maps cleanly onto Kingdom regulation.
EDUCATION & CURRICULUM
Our education offer is a complete, play-based curriculum system spanning infants through pre-kindergarten - language, math, science, social sciences, physical development, fine arts, and social-emotional learning, delivered through 400+ books, lesson plans, worksheets, and documentation. The flipbook below is one representative book from that library, already localized into Arabic, a sample of the system, not the whole of it.
- Depth - a structured, age-sequenced curriculum, not a handful of activities.
- Classroom-ready - print-ready materials teachers can use on day one.
- Localizable - the same framework adapts to Saudi language, culture, and curriculum expectations.
TEACHER TRAINING
Whole Child provides structured teacher training built around age-appropriate programs, giving every educator the guidance to deliver our curriculum with confidence, age group by age group. Training pairs with the operations and curriculum systems so a new center can open with a fully prepared team, not just a building.
- Turnkey staffing - we don’t just supply curriculum, we train the teachers who deliver it.
- Age-specific - dedicated manuals per age group, so training matches developmental stage.
- Scalable - a repeatable training system that stands up quality teams across many centers at once.
SEE IT IN ACTION
A short, curated set showing what the systems above look like in the real world. Each clip is tied to a capability.
One partner. Complete delivery.
Whole Child® is the operating partner that de-risks a national childcare commitment and delivers the centers on the ground - designed, built, staffed, trained, and operated.
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