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National Family Day Care Week is a chance for the family day care sector to unite and celebrate the amazing work of educators and approved services in shaping the lives of more than 70,000 children around the country.
The week-long community event is an excellent opportunity to raise the image and profile of family day care as an integral part of Australia’s early childhood education and care sector.
It will also provide a platform for approved family day care services to collectively advocate for quality early childhood education and school age care.
In 2025 National Family Day Care Week will take place from 5-11 May.
We will be encouraging all educator and services to hold their own National Family Day Care Week picnic during the week.
If you have registered your picnic, FDCA will use the information you have provided to distribute a media release in the lead up to National Family Day Care Week to your local media outlets to create positive media about family day care and share family day care's unique benefits with all Australians.
To register your picnic, click here.
Taking part in and sharing National Family Day Care week with the broader community helps educators and approved services to highlight to the community the role of play in children’s learning and how this is supported every day in family day care.
By getting involved participants have an opportunity to celebrate and share the many unique benefits of family day care.
The suggested activities in the Programming Ideas Guide are all great ways to entice local media to cover National Family Day Care Week and raise the image and profile of the sector.
If you would like to purchase tickets to the National Family Day Care Week Adventure at the Zoo, please check your inbox for the email FDCA sent to members recently. In this email is the ticket link.
If you can't find this email, please contact marketing@fdca.com.au.
More information about the National Family Day Care Week Adventure at the Zoo is available here.
In the event that the event is postponed due to bad weather, FDCA will notify attendees of the new date (if rescheduling is possible). Those unable to attend on the new date, will be entitled to a refund.
If you have planned a picnic and Mother Nature delivers some nasty weather we encourage you to still go ahead with the event.
If possible, have a safe and protected wet weather venue organised in advance so you can easily move your guests there if needed – it might be inside the approved service, under a pergola or in your garage or lounge room.
There are still lots of activities you can offer in the event of bad weather:
You can share your photos on social media by posting them and using the hashtag #FDCWeek25. You can also use our National Family Day Care Week photo templates via Canva and share them on social media. To use these templates, visit the National Family Day Care Week resorces section of the website.
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