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Have you rehearsed your emergency and evacuation procedures in the past 3 months?
One of the most common breaches relates to Regulation 97 Emergency and Evacuation Procedures. While it is ultimately the approved provider's responsibility to ensure that educators are meeting their obligations under this regulation, educators don’t need to wait to rehearse!
Emergency and evacuation procedures must be rehearsed and documented every three months.
Key points to remember:
Also, don’t forget… a copy of the emergency and evacuation floor plan and instructions must be displayed in a prominent position near each exit at the ECEC service premises, including at a family day care residence.
Educators should contact their approved service if unsure of exactly what, how and when this should be done as each approved service must have a set of policies and procedures that is informed by a risk assessment that identifies potential emergencies relevant to that particular service AND set out instructions for what must be done in the event of an emergency.
For more information, check National Quality Framework, Element 2.2.2: Incident and emergency management and the ACECQA Policy Guidelines on emergency and evacuations.
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 social and emotional learning, 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.
Social and emotional learning includes skills such as children learning to recognise and separate their own needs from others, learning to identify and manage emotions, and building and maintaining positive relationships.
This Early Childhood Learning Trajectory video outlines children’s progress in executive functions 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 Social and emotional learning is also available on the AERO website.
September 1 - 7 is National Child Protection Week (NCPW). Organised by National Association for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (NAPCAN), Australia’s secular for purpose organisation focusing entirely on the prevention of child abuse and neglect before it starts.
NCPW aims to engage, educate and empower Australians to understand the complexity of child abuse and neglect and work together to prevent it. The campaign does this through sharing evidence through webinars and events as well as creating resources in order to empower communities to have conversations regarding children’s safety and wellbeing. To find out about local events for NCPW, visit the NCPW community events page.
In 2024, the NCPW message that ‘Every child in every community needs a fair go’ will be complemented with the theme ‘Every conversation matters’. Conversations are powerful tools to keep children and young people safe and well and can help us understand issues, craft solutions, value community knowledge, and build the brains and social connections of children and young people.
There are a number of ways to be involved including posters and activity sheets, a free webinar program that runs throughout the week, local events and an art activity. These are all available on the NCPW website, ways to get involved page. There is also a suite of brochures and Tips for Playing Your Part which includes a section on carers.
FDCA has developed both a hard copy and online interactive learning module Safeguarding Children: Harmful Sexual Behaviours, which is specific to the family day care setting. Both of these resources are available FREE, to all FDCA members, via the FDCA Member Zone.
Login to your FDCA Member Zone and navigate to the FDCA Learning Hub tab to access the online module. To access the digital resources, navigate to the Resources and Factsheets library, once logged into the FDCA Member Zone.
Calling all bookworms and lovers of literature, we invite you to nominate for the position of book reviewer for edition 106 of JiGSAW.
Not only will you receive four wonderful books to share with your family day care children, you’ll also get the opportunity to talk about the stories with them and share their thoughts and feelings about the stories with the entire sector.
If you would like to be considered as our book reviewer, please email marketing@fdca.com.au with your membership number and contact details before 5pm AEST on 30th August 2024.
Good luck to everyone!
Are you an educational leader or family day care coordinator looking to support educators’ understanding of pedagogical practice? Perhaps you’re a family day care educator looking to expand the horizons of your pedagogical approach?
Either way, you’ll love our professional learning and development resources, available within your FDCA Member Zone: A Short Guide to Early Childhood Pedagogy and the accompanying Companion Resource.
These publications extend on FDCA's resources to support critical reflection and enhance professional practices and programming, complementing FDCA’s Critical Reflection in Practice Guide and Companion Resource.
A Short Guide to Early Childhood Pedagogy and the accompanying Companion Resource will assist educational leaders, family day care coordinators and educators to promote and support a culture of professional enquiry, challenge the status quo and generate new thinking to support continuous improvement.
Created as part of our ongoing commitment to support our members, you can access the Short Guide and Companion Resource through your FDCA Member Zone.
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