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Public consultation is still open on proposed regulatory and non-regulatory policy options intended to further strengthen child safety in education and care services regulated under the National Quality Framework (NQF).
An email bulletin sent to all FDCA members last week included details about the process and how you can have your say on the National Child Safety Review Consultation Regulation Impact Statement (CRIS), which is proposing some significant changes to the National Law and the National Regulations, many of which have considerable implications for the family day care sector, particularly regarding personal device use and access to premises.
Thank you to those members who contributed to the FDCA’s member survey. Your input will assist us in presenting a united position on the proposed changes, on behalf of the family day care sector nationally through a formal submission.
In addition to FDCA’s submission, we encourage members to place their own. Placing your own submission ensures that family day care is well represented and the implications for the sector are considered. It is important that your voice is heard.
For more information and to place your own submission to the National Child Safety Review, click here.
Submissions close on Wednesday 11th June 2025.
Time is running out to secure your exclusive FDCA member early-bird pricing for the FDCA 2025 National Conference, with the early-bird discount ending on 30 June 2025. This is your chance to secure your spot at a reduced rate and join fellow family day care professionals, sector experts and industry leaders at the must-attend family day care event for 2025.
Don't wait, only a limited number of full registration tickets are available.
You can secure your early-bird ticket via single payment or 4-monthly instalments, by clicking here.
Instalment option still available to members
As an FDCA member, you have exclusive access to a 4-month instalment plan for full conference registration. That means you can secure your ticket now without needing to pay the full amount upfront.
But be quick, the instalment ticket option will close at the end of this month.
We’re excited to announce that nominations in the 2025 Excellence in Family Day Care Awards have gone past 3,000! This figure highlights the appreciation of the wonderful work done by educators, coordinators and services in the family day care sector in delivering high quality early childhood education and care to children across Australia.
The second round of nominations in the Awards have also been released. FDCA members that were nominated between the dates 20 - 27 May have been sent their official nomination notification emails, with the lists of nominees available to view here.
The nominee lists now include all members that have been nominated from 13 - 27 May, with the third round of nominations set to be released this Friday.
To help promote the Awards, you can access a range of resources via the FDCA website that will assist you to spread the word and build awareness of the Awards and family day care.
When an family day care educator ceases providing care with a service (either permanently or due to a prolonged absence) the service must notify the Department of Education within specified timeframes, as set out in Minister Rules s55, Item 22.
Notifications can be made through the Provider Entry Point (PEP) or via the third-party software provider.
Notification Timeframes:
The notification must include the date the educator ceased to be engaged by, or registered with the service.
Resources:
Did you know that so far in 2025 our Family Day Care Locator has already generated over 5,500 child care enquiries for FDCA members!
With numbers like this, ensuring your Family Day Care Locator listing is up to date is crucial if you want to attract new families to your family day care business, and with every FDCA member having access to a FREE listing there’s no excuse not to get moving.
To help you add some sparkle and polish to your listing, we’ve got some easy to understand, short video guides to set you on your way.
Managing your listing
To get your Family Day Care Locator listing standing out from the crowd, you’ll need to add a little shimmer and shine! This means adding your business name, updating your profile picture and telling your story.
To view a short video on how to manage your listing, click here.
Checking your enquiries
Once your listing is glistening, you’ll need to be ready to respond to care enquiries when they start coming in.
Click here to see how you can access your Family Day Care Locator enquiries inbox to check, manage and respond to enquiries.
It is also important to monitor different folders in your inbox for notification emails that tell you that a Locator enquiry has been received. From time to time these notification emails may go into a spam/junk folder or other pre-set folders within your inbox (the “promotions”, “updates” and “social” folders within Gmail are an example of this.
Level up your listing
Once your listing is in tip top shape, we have a range of marketing packages that can help you get your listing to the top of the pops!
There’s too many exciting features to list here, so we’ve created a quick video below that will guide you through all the benefits available across each package that can help you level up your listing!
Click here to find out how you can level up your listing.
The latest ACECQA NQF Snapshot has been released, revealing that there are now more than 18,000 approved services operating across Australia. This is a 4% increase over the last 12 months.
The Q1 2025 NQF Snapshot shows that there are 412 approved family day care services operating across Australia, with 77% of services having a NQS rating of Meeting NQS or higher, this is an increase of 7% over the last 12 months.
To view the latest NQF Snapshot, click here.
Eid al-Adha will fall on Friday 6 June 2025 and is a time of gratitude, generosity and celebration for Muslim communities across Australia and the world.
Also known as the Feast of Sacrifice, Eid al-Adha honours the importance of faith and family in our lives, as embodied by the Prophet Ibrahim in his service to Allah (swt).
For all of our members, Eid al-Adha is an opportunity to share in years of rich traditions and history with children, families and fellow family day care colleagues.
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The Family Day Care Australia national office will be closed from 5.00pm AEST Friday 6th June and reopening 9.00am Tuesday 10th June 2025.
Should your family day care insurance require renewal during this period or if you need to purchase a new family day care insurance policy, please visit our website. If you need to make an emergency claim, details of how to do this are located on our website.
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