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Become a Family Day Care educator - contact us today!
Complete this form or give us a call, 0427 637 272 to enquire.
Benefits of starting your own business
If you want to use your skills and experience to build a long-term professional career and make a positive difference in the lives of children, family day care is a great choice.
Family day care educators manage their own businesses. You can choose your own hours and work from your own home. If you have your own children, you can combine your career as a family day care educator with caring for your own family.
Download the brochure on the benefits of being an educator with family day care (PDF 2 MB) .
Our team can help assess your current skills and experience and can support you to work towards starting your own family day care business.
Qualifications and skills needed
To be a family day care educator, you need:
- Certificate III (or higher) level qualification in Early Childhood Education and Care, or another ACECQA approved education and care qualification
- experience as an early childhood educator
- experience or knowledge in planning, implementing and evaluating children’s learning
- a high level of business practice and administration
- an appropriate house for children to participate safely in play-based learning
- current certificates in first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation, asthma and anaphylaxis
- child-related employment screening (also required for anyone aged 18 and over living at your home)
- an understanding of child protection in South Australia and your role as a mandated notifier
- responding to risk of harm, abuse and neglect – education and care (RRHAN-EC) training
- a medical clearance
- public liability insurance.
RECRUITING NOW! Do you have the above requirements, or would you be willing to obtain them? Complete this form or give us a call, 0427 637 272 to enquire.
Watch this video to learn how rewarding a career as a family day care educator can be.
Family day care educator case study video transcript
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Find out how much you could earn
Use our income calculator to see an estimate of the gross income (your income before tax and other expenses) that you could potentially earn as a family day care educator.
Setting up your home for family day care
Family day care is an opportunity to provide education and care in your home.
Working as an educator means sharing your family home and balancing your business and family life.
Setting up your home for family day care involves spending some of your time and resources creating stimulating, engaging spaces for children to use (indoor and outdoor).
You can choose what areas of your home will be used exclusively for family day care and what areas will be shared spaces with your own family. You will need to demonstrate how these spaces meet the requirements of running a family day care service.
We’ll consider your ability to successfully manage a small business in addition to educating and caring for children when you apply to become a family day care educator.
Each educator’s home is different, both indoors and outdoors. Setting up your own home for family day care is about what you want to achieve and create with your space for children to learn and grow.
You can see some of the different family day care spaces our educators have in the images below. Click on each image to make it bigger.