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Family Day Care Australia was proud to announce the 2024 Educator, Coordinator and Service of the Year on Saturday night, after a fantastic Awards Season, that saw more than 5,000 nominations placed!
The announcement of the 2024 National Winners took place at the Excellence in Family Day Care Awards Gala Dinner at the Parkroyal Parramatta in front of more than 120 guests.
Congratulations to our 2024 National Winners:
For all the details on our National Winners and National Finalists, click here.
You can also re-live the magic of the announcement of the National Winners from Saturday night via the FDCA Facebook page.
We thank everyone that participated in the awards in 2024, including those who attended the Gala Dinner and all that placed nominations.
Congratulations to all of the nominees, finalists and winners in this year's Awards.
We also thank our wonderful sponsors, who helped to make the 2024 Excellence in Family Day Care Awards possible.
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.
Are you an innovative FDCA member with marketing savvy? If the answer is yes, we want to hear from you!
FDCA is calling for a marketing savvy member to join us on our next edition of the FDCA Online Engagement Series which will focus on the topic of Marketing your Family Day Care Business.
If you would like the chance to share your knowledge, ideas and expertise, simply click here and complete the quick online form.
Would you like to share your insights and expertise with your colleagues at the FDCA 2025 National Conference? If the answer is yes, don’t miss your chance to submit an abstract!
Renowned as the premier event for family day care professionals, the FDCA 2025 National Conference provides FDCA members with the unique opportunity to stand shoulder to shoulder with some of Australia’s leading minds in early childhood education and care, and share their knowledge, experience and insights.
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. Join FDCA in representing, supporting and promoting family day care by adding your voice to the program.
As a presenter at the conference, you will become part of a stellar line-up that already includes internationally acclaimed New Zealand neuroscience educator Nathan Wallis, Dual Olympian and MD Dr Jana Pittman and National Children’s Commissioner Anne Hollonds.
The deadline for abstracts is 31 January 2025.
For more information and instructions on how to submit your abstracts, click here.
The Australian Government Department of Education has released information about Child Care Subsidy (CCS) payments, session reports, absences and service closures over the holiday period.
The information includes a handy table that outlines when a service that closes over the Christmas-New Year period may submit session reports and claim absences.
For more information visit the website.
As noted in previous editions of Family Day Care Matters, members are reminded that as a result of recent updates to FDCA’s IT system, they will need to update their password for their FDCA Member Zone.
If you have updated your password already, please disregard this message.
To update your Member Zone password, please follow these simple steps:
We apologise for any inconvenience this process may cause. If you have any issues in logging into your FDCA Member Zone, please email enquiries@fdca.com.au.
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