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This will be our last edition of Family Day Care Matters for 2024. Thank you to everyone who has contributed throughout the year, as always we hope to bring you informative pieces about our sector and support our members in any way we can.
FDCA wishes you and your families a very happy and safe holiday period and we look forward to supporting, promoting and representing you in 2025.
The first edition of Family Day Care Matters for 2025 will be sent on Wednesday 8th January 2025.
With another successful Excellence in Family Day Care Awards campaign complete we are pleased to share with members that the 2024 edition of the Awards resulted in a record number of positive media stories!
This year we were able to secure 169 positive stories about family day care in publications all across the country, including online news, print media, radio and television. These stories reached an audience of more than 1 million people and had an advertising value of over $113,000. A sample of these stories can be viewed here.
This result demonstrates the importance of the Awards program from a strategic media engagement perspective and its ability to help raise awareness about family day care. During its history the awards have now resulted in over 1,325 positive media stories about family day care.
Griffith University is conducting research with the parents of children enrolled in family day care to gather their opinions and strategies for improving healthy eating and physical activity in this setting.
Participants will be required to take part in a 1.5 hour online focus group, with participants receiving a $50 digital Mastercard gift card.
If you have registered families that may be interested in participating, please share this information and tell them to visit https://bit.ly/familydaycareresearch.
The research aims to discuss potential strategies to create an environment within Australian family day care where every child eats healthy and gets enough exercise. This information can be used to develop interventions that can help family day care educators create a healthy nutrition and physical activity environment.
To find out more information about the research, click here.
Are you looking for the chance to share your knowledge, expertise and insights with your fellow family day care professionals?
The premier event for family day care, the FDCA National Conference gives you the rare opportunity to join some of the leading minds in early childhood education and care.
Regardless of whether this is your first time attending the FDCA National Conference or you’re a conference regular, we invite you to submit an abstract to present.
If this is the opportunity you've been waiting for, click here to submit your abstract.
Session availability at the FDCA 2025 National Conference will be limited, therefore the number of presenters selected will be restricted.
We will give strong consideration to abstracts that are interactive in nature over those that are strictly oral in delivery. Therefore, please highlight if your session will be interactive within your abstract.
The FDCA office will close at 5.00pm AEDT on Tuesday 24 December 2024 and reopen at 9.00am AEDT on Thursday 2 January 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 here.
Otherwise please call our office on Thursday 2 January 2025. We wish all our members a safe and relaxing holiday season!
Get Early Childhood Compliance Knowledge Online, or Geccko, is the online learning platform for the early childhood education and care sector created by the federal Department of Education.
Geccko is designed to help you comply with your obligations under Family Assistance Law (FAL), that sets the rules for administering Child Care Subsidy.
On Geccko, you can:
Geccko courses have been designed to be suitable for all staff across all approved care types, including family day care.
To access the free courses, you must first register for Geccko. You can register for Geccko here.
Courses vary between 10-20 minutes in length, so are easy to fit into your busy day.
Current courses available are:
FDCA’s 2025 Wall Planner is now available for download!
The planner captures important dates including school and public holidays, key events and celebrations.
Two sizes of the Wall Planner are available to download:
Download your FREE Wall Planner via the links above or log in to your FDCA Member Zone and click on the Resources and Factsheets subheading.
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