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Family Day Care offers quality child care for young children in the home of a registered care provider. The service is available for children aged between birth and 12 years of age.
Family Day Care provides an extended home environment for your child with flexible hours and a program that offers children learning and developmental experiences in small groups, therefore ensuring more individual attention to your child’s needs.
At any one time a careprovider can care for up to 7 children with a maximum of 4 who have not started school.
Swan Hill Family Day Care is accredited with National Child Care Accreditation Council with regard to Quality Assurance.
Who can use Family Day Care?
Who will be providing care for my Children?
What will my children do in Family Day Care?
Enrolment Procedures
Can I become a Careprovider?
The role of Council’s Family Day Care staffContact Details
Who Can Use Family Day Care?
Family Cay Care is available to parents who need reliable, quality care for their children. The service can provide care for:
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Children of working parents
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Children of parent who are studying
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Children with additional needs, or at risk of harm
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Children of parents who need a break
Family Day Care is flexible and can be full time, part time, casual, weekends or overnight to meet families needs.
Who will be providing care for my Children?
Family Day Care careproviders are carefully selected and
- Provide a safe and secure child care service in their own home environment
- Offer a close relationship with the child and his or her parents
- Are recruited, trained and supported by the co-ordination unit
- Have access to training to develop their skills and knowledge of children and child care practices
- Represent the cultural diversity which exists within the community
What will my children do in Family Day Care?
Your child/ren will have the opportunity to learn through play and exploration while mixing with a small group of children.
They will participate in activities that have been planned to suit each child’s individual needs such as story-telling, singing, playing games, visiting the park or the library. They will also mix in larger groups of children through supervised play sessions and other special activities.
Enrolment Procedures
A Family Day Care Enrolment Form will need to be completed and returned to our office. The application will be assessed by a Family Day Care Fieldworker who will check if there are any vacancies to match the families needs.
If there is no vacancy, the application will be put on a waiting list and the parent/guardian regularly contacted about the status of their application.
Can I become a Careprovider?
Yes, you could…if you would enjoy working with children in your own home, and you
- Are caring, energetic, flexible, creative and enjoy children.
- Understand and have the ability to meet children’s developmental needs.
- Can develop a friendly, trusting relationship with both the children and families in their care.
- Can provide a safe, clean and secure environment and comply with service regulations.
Process and conditions of registration include:
- A written application
- Interview conducted by Family Day Care Field Workers in your home.
- Reference checks.
- Police Checks of all persons in the home over 17 years of age.
- First Aid Certificate
- Safety check of home.
- Orientation training, including ‘buddy” time with selected careproviders.
Contact the Family Day Care Co-ordination Unit on +613 5036 2333 for an application form and further information.
The role of Council’s Family Day Care Staff
The Family Day Care Co-ordination Unit is staffed by experienced professionals to support the provision of quality child care by:
- Liaising with parents
- Providing ongoing support, information and advice to parents and careproviders
- Providing training opportunities for careproviders
- Encouraging good communication between the careprovider and parents
- Keeping up to date with quality practices and directions in child care
- Assisting careproviders with activity programs
- Maintaining regular contact with careproviders.
Contact Details
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Family Day Care Co-ordination Unit |
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Council Offices |
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45 Splatt Street, Swan Hill. |
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Phone: +613 5036 2333 |
Other websites
More information about Family Day Care in general is available on the following websites:
Family Day Care Victoria
Family Day Care Australia
National Child Care Accreditation Council
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