Research

Family Day Care Australia conducts, participates in and contributes to a wide range of research activities in the interest of exploring the issues associated with the family day care sector.

A number of central tenets inform our research activities, including

• Evidence based best practice
• Continual professional development
• A rights based approach

Engaging in robust, quality research provides a better understanding of the family day care sector and ensures a strong evidence base to help inform our advocacy work with government and other sector stakeholders.

For information about some of Family Day Care Australia’s current and past research projects please see the links below.

• Engagement in early childhood education in the context of disadvantage
• Observe, Reflect, Improve Children’s Learning Tool (ORICL) for Early Childhood Services
• Harnessing the Health Communication Power of the Early Childhood Sector
• Attracting the next generation of family day care educators
• Perspectives on Quality in Australian Family Day Care (University of New South Wales, Social Policy Research Centre)
• Family Day Care Flexibility Trials
• Mental Health and Wellbeing PhD Project (University of Melbourne)
• Infants' Lives in Child Care Project (Charles Sturt University)
• E4Kids Project - Effective Early Educational Experiences
• Community Services and Health Industry Skills Council Family Day Care Workforce Development Project

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