What is family day care?

Family day care is a quality home-based child care service that’s been actively helping Australian families for over 30 years.

The service caters for young babies through to pre-teens and can offer care during standard hours, before/after school, during school holidays and in some circumstances overnight and weekends.
 

Family day care's unique and important benefit of higher carer to child ratios enabling children to receive individual attention is the preferred child care choice for the discerning families of over 102,900 children who are enrolled in family day care. And with over 12,000 carers and 307 coordination units (schemes) operating across all states and territories there will be a family day care service near you.    

For more information phone our national family day care hotline on FREECALL 1800 621 218 and we can answer your questions and put you in touch with your local family day care service.

Who is Family Day Care Australia?

Family Day Care Australia (FDCA) is family day care’s national peak body.

Our role is to support, enhance and resource family day care services, and lead the way for family day care in the Australian child care industry. Our key roles are research and advocacy of family day care policy issues, and innovative and strategic promotion of our unique child care service. We also offer a range of tailored insurance policies, publications and other products to ensure that family day care workers are well resourced.
    
We work only on behalf of family day care – it’s what we do, and this enables us to focus on what is important. We are committed to excellent practice in our services to ensure the best possible social and learning outcomes for children. Our focus is firmly on getting results, whether it be with government, through marketing or when sourcing relevant and cost-effective resources. Call us for more information about our work on FREECALL 1800 621 218.