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The Regional Educator Award Winners in the 2024 Excellence in Family Day Care Awards were announced last week on Tuesday 24 September and we’re pleased to share a number of positive media stories that have already started rolling in.
Following last week’s announcement, FDCA started receiving calls from media outlets from all across the country keen to speak with this year’s winners.
To view a listing of the stories that have already been published, click here.
With more articles set to be published over the coming weeks, we encourage everyone to keep an eye on the FDCA website and Facebook page for more positive stories about family day care!
Are you confident that your service is fully compliant, and do you have access to the most up to date version of the National Law and Regulations?
One of the most common breaches in Family Day Care (FDC) services relates to Regulation 185: Law and Regulations to be Available.
This regulation requires the approved provider to make sure that a copy of the Law and the Regulations is always accessible at the education and care service premises. A compliance direction may be issued for failure to comply with this regulation.
Key points to remember:
Educators should contact their approved service for guidance on how to access the regulations and the law as required by their service.
To access the current digital copies, click here:
Every education and care service must ensure that risks associated with infection are prevented or minimised as far as is reasonably practical.
The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has released a new edition of Staying healthy: Preventing infectious diseases in early childhood education and care services (Staying healthy).
Staying healthy is a best practice resource of simple and effective ways for educators and staff to help limit the spread of illness and infectious diseases in education and care settings. Developed by the NHMRC Staying Healthy Advisory Committee, it is designed to be used by anyone educating and caring for children and young people including all long day care, family day care, preschool, kindergarten and outside school hours care services.
Importantly, Staying healthy has been developed in alignment with the National Quality Framework and includes references to the Education and Care Services National Law and Regulations and the National Quality Standard.
The latest edition incorporates new evidence and perspectives from the past 10 years and updated scenarios based on real life situations that illustrate key messages and appropriate actions. It also includes 5 key practice recommendations for services and educators.
In response to community comments and enquiries received by NHMRC on the fifth edition, fact sheets on symptoms and diseases have been added to the guideline. Both fact sheet format and content have been updated to present clear information about symptoms and conditions for educators and other staff, parents and carers.
You can access the NHMRC resources at the links below:
If you have any questions or need further information, please email icg@nhmrc.gov.au.
On Monday, 7 October 2024, the Family Day Care Australia office will be closed for the Labour Day Public Holiday. Our office will reopen at 9.00am AEDT Tuesday 8 October 2024.
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.
After a great response from our first Recipes for Fun in FDC, we’re excited to let you know we will be having another call out this week!
We love seeing the inventive creations that Educators share on social media and want to share them with our online community. By sharing these creations with our community, we hope to inspire Educators to try out something new.
In the coming days we will put a call out via Facebook to share an activity, provocation or resource that you’ve created and the children loved. Educators will be able to take part by sharing a picture and caption of their creation. If selected, we’ll ask for short step-by-step instructions (including photos) for the activity so we can make a how-to guide for other Educators to follow.
The lucky Educator who is selected to share their creation will win a $50 visa gift card!
Our focus is to keep the activities simple and cost effective, so that all children and Educators can jump in and have fun.
We can’t wait to see, and share, your great ideas!
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