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Family Day Care Australia (FDCA) is pleased to announce that a new payment plan is available for the FDCA 2025 National Conference. The new 8-month payment plan is exclusively available to FDCA members and means you can secure your ticket now and pay via eight convenient monthly instalments.
With limited tickets available for the FDCA 2025 National Conference, payment plans are a popular way for members to secure their ticket in advance to ensure they don’t miss out on their conference ticket.
To access the 8-month payment plan click here.
Call for Abstracts close 31 January
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.
With 2025 up and running we want to help you kick-start the new year!
Over the coming weeks we will be showcasing exclusive member-only resources that can support you in achieving your professional goals for 2025!
In today’s edition of FDCM we’re focusing on marketing and promotion via the Market My Business Hub.
FDCA’s Market My Business Hub provides you with easy access to professionally crafted customised marketing resources to promote your business. With a range of diverse options available, you can order customised digital material so that you can have it printed as you see fit.
Designed on the back of extensive market research and sector consultation, so you can be sure that the material you order will resonate with your audience.
Available via your FDCA Member Zone, choose from posters, postcards, flyers, brochures, videos and even order your own customised family day care logo!
Visit your FDCA Member Zone today to place your order!
Whether it’s helping you put your best foot forward in promoting your business or giving you access to first-class professional learning material, we’ve got a great range of FREE member-only resources to set you up for a fantastic 2025!
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.
Be You is the national mental health and wellbeing initiative for learning communities in Australia.
Be You promotes mental health and wellbeing, from the early years to 18, and offers educators and learning communities evidence-based online professional learning, complemented by a range of tools and resources to turn learning into action.
A range of educator wellbeing resources are available via the Be You website, these include:
To access these great resources and much more, click here.
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.
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 language and communication, 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.
Language and communication are the foundations for all learning and social interaction. They relate to many other aspects of cognitive, physical and social development, beginning in infancy.
This Early Childhood Learning Trajectory looks at children’s progress in language and communication to help you plan the next steps in their learning and development 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 language and communication is also available on the AERO website.
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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