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The National Early Childhood Worker Register is now live, providing regulatory authorities with greater visibility of the ECEC workforce and supporting their ability to monitor, identify and respond to risks to help keep children safe.
Regulatory authorities can now see who is working in education and care services and where, helping to strengthen safety and quality across the sector.
As a reminder, approved providers are required to ensure the Worker Register is kept up to date, including adding and maintaining details for workers engaged in education and care roles at the service.
Updates must be made within 14 days of any change, including:
For guidance and more information, visit the ACECQA Worker Register page.
On Tuesday 26 May, from 11.30 am – 12.30 pm (AEST), Early Childhood Australia (ECA) will be hosting a free webinar on ‘Learning Environment Safety Audits’ as part of its new child safeguarding professional learning series. The speakers for the session will be Nicole Talarioc and Sam Dellamarta, both members of the Rapid Response Taskforce, which you can learn more about here. Sam Dellamarta has worked with FDCA on the Safeguarding Children Resource and presented at the FDCA National Conference.
The series has been designed to support early childhood leaders, teachers and educators to strengthen child safety practices, build confidence and reflect on practices that help create safer environments for children.
Recognising the increasing pressures across the sector, the sessions aim to support educators and service leaders to navigate complex situations while continuing to prioritise children’s safety and wellbeing. The practice-based webinars extend beyond compliance requirements, encouraging reflective conversations, stronger safeguarding approaches and practical strategies that can be applied in everyday settings.
All webinars are free and recordings will be available to registered participants.
For more information and to register, visit the Early Childhood Australia website.
Nominations for the 2026 FDCA Excellence in Family Day Care Awards will open next week. From Monday 25th May, nominations can be submitted via the FDCA website, with the nominations period closing on July 2nd, 2026.
FDCA members who have been nominated will be notified via email. A list of members who have been nominated will also be shared to the FDCA website and will be updated throughout the nominations period. Members can expect this list to be updated on Tuesday 2nd June, Monday 22nd June and Monday 6th July.
In its 15th year, The Awards will continue to showcase the wonderful work done by educators, coordinators and services in the family day care sector to deliver high quality early childhood education and care to children across Australia.
The awards give families, educators and service staff an opportunity to express in their own words what makes their educator, coordinator or approved service such an integral and special contributor to their lives and to the lives of the children in their care.
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Early Childhood Australia is consulting with the ECEC sector to shape the next wave of child safety and safeguarding resources and professional learning — and they want to hear from as many educators, leaders and services as possible.
If you work in early childhood education and care, your experience is exactly what this consultation needs. ECA wants to understand which topics matter most to you, the challenges you face in practice, and what resource formats best support your work. Your responses will directly inform practical, freely available resources developed for the whole sector.
The survey is confidential and de-identified. All respondents who complete the survey in full will be entered into the draw to win one of ten $100 ECA Shop vouchers.
To take the survey, click here.
National Simultaneous Storytime will take place this Wednesday 27th May, 2026 at 12pm AEST. The selected story ‘Luna Roo the Kangaroo Baller’ written by Adam Jackson and Adrian Lloyd, and illustrated by Jake Minton.
Luna Roo is a story about rising to a challenge with heart and grit, “Navigating nerves, tricky opponents, and unexpected hurdles reflects the kind of determination kids face every day. It is a powerful celebration of courage, self-belief, and pushing through when things get tough.” said Kellie John, a member of the selection panel.
To find out more about National Simultaneous Storytime, please click here.
As a member of FDCA, did you know that you have access to a range of FREE customisable marketing resources that you can use to promote your family day care?
For many early childhood professionals and services, the time and cost involved in developing marketing materials is daunting.
FDCA’s Market My Business Hub provides you with easy access to professionally crafted customised marketing resources to promote your business. With updated material and more options than ever available, you can order customised digital material so that you can have it printed as you see fit.
What’s available in the Market My Business Hub?
All material in the Market My Business Hub has been designed on the back of extensive market research and sector consultation, so you can be sure that the material you order will resonate with your audience.
With a wide range of digital resources available in the Market My Business Hub, members can access:
To access the Market My Business Hub, click here.
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