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FDCA yesterday named the National Finalists in the 2024 Excellence in Family Day Care Awards.
FDCA is proud to name four educators, coordinators and services that have all been selected as National Finalists in this year’s awards.
To find out who our 2024 National Finalists are, click here.
You can visit our Facebook page to pass on your congratulations to our National Finalists and follow ongoing announcements and coverage of the 2024 Excellence in Family Day Care Awards.
We congratulate our 2024 National Finalists and thank them for their passion and commitment to providing high quality education and care.
We encourage our members to keep an eye out over the coming weeks for media stories on our Award Winners, which will be shared on our Facebook page and website.
Services Australia is balancing Child Care Subsidy (CCS) for the 2023 - 24 financial year.
Families who get CCS must confirm their income with Services Australia so their payments can be balanced, by:
Once Services Australia has balanced a family’s CCS, they will send them an outcome.
More information for providers is available at the Department of Education’s website.
We would like to advise members that episode 12 of the FDCA Online Engagement Series, Critical Reflection for Family Day Care, has been rescheduled to Wednesday, 30 October 2024, 6.00pm - 7.30pm AEDT.
Episode Details
As Critical Reflection has been an area that family day care performs less well in, this is a must watch episode for all family day care educators and service staff looking for ways to gain insights and knowledge in this area.
Title: Critical Reflection for Family Day Care
Date and Time: Wednesday 30 October 2024, 6.00pm - 7.30pm AEDT
Streaming Links: FDCA Website, Facebook and YouTube
Our Special Guest Panel
This episode will see FDCA co-hosts, Advocacy and Engagement Manager Michael Farrell and Sector Liaison Coordinator Lyndall Cotterill joined by:
Our panel will focus on the following topics:
In exploring these topics, the panel will address the differences between reflection and critical reflection and also examine why critical reflection is particularly important in the context of family day care. The panel will also unpack ways that educators can critically reflect on their practice whilst embedding it into their daily routines and how services can create a supportive environment that encourages a culture of critical reflection that is sustained over time.
Did you know that FDCA has an Incident Reporting protocol for when incidents occur in your family day care business? Did you also know that FDCA's Member Zone allows you to lodge an incident report online with the click of a button?
Below are some examples of the types of incidents and the time frames in which you are required to notify FDCA:
Category A
These are severe incidents where a claim is likely to occur. These types of incidents must be reported to FDCA within 48 hours of the incident. Some examples of a Category A incident are:
Category B
These incidents are less severe but a claim may still occur from the incident. These types of incidents must be reported to FDCA within 30 days of the incident. Some examples of a Category B incident are:
Category C
These incidents are not severe and can be managed and dealt with straight away. There is no need to report a Category C incident to FDCA. Some examples of a Category C incident are:
These timeframes must be followed to ensure protection under your insurance policy, in the event that the incident leads to a claim in the future.
How to report an incident?
You can either complete FDCA’s incident report form which is available here OR you can complete an online incident report from which is located in the Insurance section of your FDCA Member Zone. Hard copy incident report forms, once completed, can be emailed to memberservices@fdca.com.au.
For more information on incident reporting, please click here.
The Child Care Quarterly Report for June 2024 was recently released by the Australian Government Department of Education. The report for shows that:
14,801 approved childcare services operated during that quarter, comprising:
999,620 families nationally used approved care. Of these:
1,416,650 children attended approved childcare. Of these:
The average hourly fee charged across all approved care services (excluding In- home care) was $12.55, with the average hourly fee for family day care sitting at $12.75. This compares to an average hourly fee of $13.15 for CBDC services and $9.10 for OSHC services.
In the June 2024 quarter, a total of 164 (or 44.3%) family day care services charged above the hourly fee cap of $12.72. This compared to 29.4% of CBDC services charging above the cap of $13.73, and 15% of OSHC services charging above the hourly fee cap of $12.02.
To view the full report, visit the Australian Government Department of Education at www.education.gov.au
Please note: As families and children may use more than one service or services in more than one state or territory, and due to rounding, the sum of the component parts may not equal the total.
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