Family Day Care NQF guides and resources
Sourced from ACECQA and ECEC QLD October 2023
Quality Area 1
Quality Area 2
Quality Area 3
Quality Area 4
Quality Area 5
Quality Area 6
Quality Area 7
Guidance
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Quality Area 1
Educational program and practice
- Educational Leadership in FDC - Addendum
- Developing a culture of learning through reflective practice
- The how and why of nature programs
- The legislative requirements of an in-nature play program
- EYLF Updates and Factsheets
Quality Area 2
Children’s health and safety
- Risk Assessment and Management Tool
- Assessment of FDC Residence and Venues August 2023
- Assessment and re-assessment of Residences and venues for FDC
- Water safety guidelines
- Monthly water safety checklist
- Daily water safety template checklist
- Sleep and rest legislative requirements
- Sleep and rest risk assessment
- ACCC Folding Cots
- Best Practice Guidance from recognised authorities
- Red Nose
- ECEC QLD Sleep and rest physical environments considerations
- Managing and responding to injury, trauma and illness incidents
- Kidsafe QLD
- Kidsafe in FDC Guidelines
- Fencing for outdoor spaces
- Fence requirements for FDC
- Outdoor playground equipment considerations for FDC
- Providing a child safe environment
- Inappropriate discipline
- Embedding the National Child Safe Principles
- Active supervision, ensuring safety and promoting learning
- Look before you lock
- Safe arrival of children
Quality Area 3
Physical environment
- Assessment of FDC Residence and Venues August 2023
- Assessment and re-assessment of Residences and venues for FDC
- Emergency and evacuation
- Multi-storey buildings: evacuations and approvals
Quality Area 4
Staffing arrangements
- Provision of information, assistance and training to FDC Educators
- Assessment of FDC Educators, FDC Educator Assistant and any persons residing
at the FDC Residence - Engagement or Registration of FDC Educator Assistants
- Engagement or Registration of FDC Educators
- Monitoring, support and supervision of FDC Educators, including how the service
will manage those in remote locations August 2021 - Ensuring staff follow policies and procedures
- 6 reasonable steps to ensure staff follow policies and procedures
Quality Area 5
Relationships with children
Quality Area 6
Collaborative partnerships
with families and community
Quality Area 7
Governance and Leadership
- Legislative requirements for FDC Educators July 2023
- Legislative requirements for FDC Providers July 2023
- Approved Provider Compliance Guides July 2023
- Educator Compliance Guides July 2023
- Nominated Supervisor Compliance Guides July 2023
- Record Keeping in FDC July 2023
- Updating record keeping requirements to support child protection
- Inappropriate discipline
- Educational Leadership in FDC - Addendum
- Using complaints to support continuous improvement
- EC QLD Resources
Policy & Procedure
Guidance
- Provision of information, assistance and training to FDC Educators
- Assessment of FDC Educators, FDC Educator Assistants and any persons
residing at the FDC Residence - Engagement or Registration of FDC Educator Assistants
- Engagement or registration of FDC Educators
- Keeping a register of FDC Educators, Coordinators and Educator assistants
- Assessment and re-assessment of Residences and venues for FDC
- Water safety guidelines
- Providing a child safe environment
- Embedding the National Child Safe Principles
- Interactions with children
- Dealing with complaints
- Delivery of children to and collection of children from Education
and Care Service Premises - Monitoring, support and supervision of FDC Educators, including
how the service will manage those in remote locations August 2021 - Safe Transport of children
- Emergency and evacuation
- Multi-storey buildings: evacuations and approvals
- The administration of first aid
- ECEC QLD Developing policies and procedures
- EC QLD Resources
- Ensuring staff follow policies and procedures
- 6 reasonable steps to ensure staff follow policies and procedures
- Polices and procedures: Not just a tick and flick