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Family Day Care Australia has announced the National Finalists in the 2025 Excellence in Family Day Care Awards!
A total of 12 National Finalists will now head to the FDCA 2025 National Conference Gala Dinner, where our 2025 National Award Winners will be announced.
To find out who our 2025 National Finalists are, click here.
Gala Dinner Tickets Now on Sale
Tickets to the FDCA 2025 National Conference Gala Dinner are now on sale!
Taking place at the Pullman Albert Park in Melbourne, this is your chance to join in the celebrations and be part of family day care's night of nights. Tickets will include a delicious three course meal, drinks package and live band.
Best of all, you'll have the chance to celebrate the naming of our 2025 Excellence in Family Day Care Awards National Winners with friends and colleagues.
Dinner tickets can be purchased here.
As services prepare for the transition to Direct Gap Fee Collection (DGFC), having a clear communication strategy in place is essential. Developing a comprehensive communication plan supports consistent and effective communication with educators, families and staff.
Developed as part of FDCA's suite of resources, the Communications Plan is designed to identify and plan for:
In addition, a detailed example has also been created to guide services in completing their own plan with confidence.
The full suite of DGFC resources is available now on the Family Day Care Australia website.
With the FDCA 2025 National Conference fast approaching, there are less than 3 weeks remaining for you to secure your ticket to the biggest event on the 2025 family day care calendar.
Whether you’re after the full conference experience, or can only make it for one day, we have a range of ticket options designed to suit your needs. You can choose from the following options:
With workshop registrations now open, be sure to get your ticket soon so that you don’t miss out on the workshops you want to attend. Workshop registration emails will be sent to new delegates on a weekly basis.
To secure your ticket, click here to select the ticket that suits you.
Dinner Tickets now on sale
If you would like to be part of the post-conference celebrations where we will also announce the 2025 Excellence in Family Day Care Awards National Winners, tickets are now on sale. But be quick, dinner tickets are limited.
To secure your dinner ticket, click here.
Regulation 127 – Family Day Care Educator Qualifications of the Education and Care Services National Regulations requires that every family day care educator holds at least an approved Certificate III level education and care qualification.
This regulation is one of the most commonly breached in family day care services. While most services are committed to ensuring educators are qualified, breaches often occur when approved providers fail to verify qualifications against ACECQA's approved list or equivalence assessments, when qualifications presented are not ACECQA recognised (for example, older courses or overseas qualifications without equivalence) or when qualification records are incomplete, missing or not easily accessible during assessment and compliance visits.
Key Considerations
For educators, compliance means ensuring your qualification documents are current and shared with your service.
For approved providers, it means having robust systems to verify, record, and monitor educator qualifications.
Further information:
The Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority (ACECQA) has developed a series of free eLearning modules designed to build understanding of the National Quality Framework (NQF).
The second module in the series, NQF Induction 2: Overview of the NQF, provides a clear and practical introduction to the framework and is useful for a wide range of audiences:
The module's key learning objectives include:
You can access the NQF Induction 2: Overview of the NQF module here.
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