Build a flexible, sustainable and rewarding early childhood career by becoming a family day care educator.

Complete this form or give us a call, 0427 637 272 to enquire.

Educators manage their own family day care service from their home, with the support of our team.

Starting a family day care service combines your experience in early childhood education and passion for nurturing and inspiring young children with the flexibility and work life balance of home-based work and setting your own hours.

If you have your own children, you can combine your career as a family day care educator with caring for your own children. Educators can care for up to 7 children in total, with a no more than 4 children under school age.

You will also have plenty of support from a Department for Education coordinator and also the family day care business centre, plus networking opportunities allowing you to connect with other family day care educators at events like pop-up playgroups.

Download the brochure on the benefits of being an educator with family day care (PDF 1 MB) .

Watch this video to learn more about how rewarding a career as a family day care educator can be.

Our team is with you through every step in the process of becoming a family day care educator. We can assess your current skill set and help you bridge any gaps to set you up for long-term career success.

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.

If you have the above requirements or you’d be willing to obtain them, then please complete this form, or give us a call on 0427 637 272 to find out more from our family day care team

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.

Family day care is an opportunity to provide education and care in your home. You’ll create a safe and nurturing place for children to learn, play and grow.

Setting up your home as a family day care service involves balancing your business and family life. You can choose which areas of your home will be used exclusively for family day care and which areas will be shared spaces with your own family.

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.  We will work with you to ensure your home meets the requirements of running a family day care service.

You don’t need to own your home, you can be a renter, you will just need to ensure that your gain landlord permission to deliver your family day care service.

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.