Table 1 Micro costing assumptions and sources of unit costs

 Face to face training

Health service-funded dietitians and project officers employed to support childcare centres to be compliant with dietary guidelines

Wage rates

HSM level D midpoint of $42.50 per hour including 30% on-costs

 Support phone calls, newsletter and emails

 Optional online training offered to cooks

 Tablets to enable portable access to web-resources

Tablets: Samsung Galaxy tablets provided to intervention centres

Tablets: Exact cost from project records $308.44 average 2016/2017 cost

 Stationery—printed resources

Printing:

2 colour pages

Printing: Exact cost from project records $0.10/0.65 per page Officeworks

 B&W/colour

2 colour pages

 Blank service action plan (colour)

17 colour pages

 Certificate of participation in training

4 colour pages

 Nutrition training manual

2 B&W pages

 Support Officer Action Plan examples

21 colour pages

 Training evaluation questionnaire

 FeedAustralia User Guide (colour)

 Phone calls

Follow-up phone calls (3 per service)

Online training phone calls (additional to follow-up phone calls)

Exact cost from project records $0.30 Telstra local rate

 Travel and expenses

Meals, travel and accommodation costs

Exact cost from project records

Travel by car valued using the NSW Treasury ‘TC17-10 Meal, Travelling and Related Allowances’ monetary rates per kilometre travelled [37]

 Labour

Self-reported time in hours collected via baseline and follow-up using telephone surveys

Fair Work Australia award wage rates per hour [31] (lower, midpoint, upper) adjusted to include 30% overheads

Cook ($26.13, $28.65, $32.25)

Educator ($30.56,$33.75, $34.26)

Supervisor ($35.28, $35.80, $36.44)

Director L1 ≤ 39 children ($40.69, $43.26, $44.71)

Director L2 40-59 children ($41.20, $43.65, $45.21)

Director L3 ≥ 60 children ($41.70, $44.19, $45.72)

 Cook

 Supervisor

 Educator

 Director