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Ticket sales for the 2024 Excellence in Family Day Care Awards Gala Dinner close tonight at 11.59pm AEDT. Don't miss out on your chance to celebrate the family day care sector, catch up with friends and be part of the biggest night on the 2024 Family Day Care Calendar!
Tickets can be purchased here.
Taking place at the Parkroyal Hotel on Saturday 23 November, the Gala Dinner will be a celebration of all those nominated this year, along with presentations to Regional and Star Award Winners in attendance, National Finalists and of course the announcement of our National Award Winners.
The Gala Dinner will provide guests with a wonderful opportunity to join friends and colleagues for what promises to be a memorable night of celebration.
FDCA members can secure tickets at an exclusive members-only discounted rate of $140 ($175 for non-members).
Event Details
Date: Saturday 23 November 2024
Time: 6:30pm - 11.00pm
Where: Parkroyal Hotel, 30 Phillip Street, Parramatta NSW
Dress Code: Cocktail
Dinner tickets include:
To find out more about the Gala Dinner and view the program of events, click here.
From 8 December 2024, early childhood education and care (ECEC) services, including family day care educators who prepare and provide food to children, will be required to follow updated food safety requirements.
Why are these changes being implemented?
The new requirements have been introduced following changes to the Australia and New Zealand Food Standards Code (the Code) and are designed to improve food safety standards by enhancing the skills and knowledge of those handling food.
Who Must Comply?
These requirements apply to all ECEC services in NSW that prepare and serve unpackaged, potentially hazardous, ready-to-eat food to children. Note that ‘potentially hazardous’ foods are defined as those requiring temperature control for safety. They include items such as dairy products, cut fruits and vegetables, cooked meats, eggs, and cooked rice or pasta. Non-hazardous foods such as whole fruits, crackers, and plain cakes are exempt.
Exemption from the requirements include situations where food is:
Key Compliance Tools
Resources for Family Day Care Educators and Services
To assist educators and services to comply with these new requirements, the NSW Food Authority has several free resources:
For more information, visit the NSW Food Authority’s website. For questions, contact their helpline on 1300 552 406 or email food.contact@dpi.nsw.gov.au for further support.
We're excited to have 20 tickets to exclusively give away to FDCA members to Maggie Dent’s “Mothering our Boys - A guide for anyone raising boys” seminar, taking place in Lakelands on Saturday 30 November 2024.
To claim your free ticket, simply be one of the first 20 FDCA members to email marketing@fdca.com.au with the subject line Maggie Dent Giveaway.
In this seminar, one of Australia’s favourite parenting authors Maggie Dent explores the power of parenting our precious boys in a warm, firm, fair and fun way from birth to adulthood. A mother of four sons herself, Maggie draws on research and personal experience – and over four decades work as a teacher, counsellor and now author and speaker – to help build understanding, empathy and compassion for our boys.
Despite the name, this seminar is useful for all parents (mums and dads), carers and educators of boys aged from birth to late teens, to help build a better understanding of the importance of cooperative intimate relationships.
Event details
Date and time:Saturday 30 November 2024, 10.00am - 12.00pm
Location: The Lakes Theatre, Catalina Drive, Lakelands, WA
Entries close on Friday, 22 November at 11.59pm AEDT.
The Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) Staff Survey 2024 is being conducted by ORIMA Research on behalf of the Australian Government Department of Education (the department). This important survey helps the Australian Government Department of Education:
The ECEC Staff Survey 2024 is being conducted over 4 November – 16 December 2024. It is open to directors, managers, coordinators, educational leaders, teachers and educators working in family day care and outside school hours care.
For more information and to take the survey click here.
Young Children in Digital Society is a new, free website that aims to provide evidence-based information and resources for educators and families to help teach and protect children in today’s digital world.
The website is the result of a four-year Young Children in Digital Society research project led by ACU in collaboration with education and health experts from Curtin University, Deakin University, Monash University, La Trobe University, and the University of Canberra.
The website was created following research into the four areas of technology use outlined in the Early Childhood Australia Statement on Young Children and Digital Technologies – relationships, health and wellbeing, citizenship, and play and pedagogy – features 40 new resources for educators and families. You can find a useful table that maps a practice that can help children and their adults use technologies in ways that are safe, fun, and educational, with a description, example, and associated resources here.
The Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO) has released a series of animated videos complementing their early childhood learning trajectories resource suite. These videos cover a range of topics, including language and communication, and have been designed for early childhood education professionals. The videos align with the Early Years Learning Framework V2.0 and the National Quality Standard.
Language and communication are the foundations for all learning and social interaction. They relate to many other aspects of cognitive, physical and social development, beginning in infancy.
This Early Childhood Learning Trajectory looks at children’s progress in language and communication to help you plan the next steps in their learning and development.
This Early Childhood Learning Trajectory video looks at children’s progress in language and communication to help you plan the next steps in their learning and development and can be used alongside the EYLF 2.0 assessment and planning cycle to support children’s learning, development and wellbeing. A practice resource on language and communication is also available on the AERO website.
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