What is Family Day Care?

Family Day Care provides quality education and care in educator’s safe family homes, as they are small groups Educators can provide a more personalised service to families and children.

Family Day Care provides:

• Weekday care
• Flexible hours
• Before and after school care
• Out of normal hours care such, as evenings and weekends

Why choose Family Day Care?

• Educators provide personalised care
• Small groups
• Flexibility in care
• Access to playgroup and excursion opportunities
• Safe home based settings
• Greater learning opportunities available in the home environment
• Build better partnerships with families and community
• Build stronger relationships with children

The benefits of Family Day Care

Family Day Care offers low child to educator ratios (1:4,1:7), which allows family day care educators and children to develop very strong bonds and to develop consistent relationships with you and your child while also enjoying a play-based curriculum that follows your child’s needs, promotes their learning and development and gives them the time to explore the world around them.

These smaller ratios also gives educators and the service opportunities to work in partnership with parents to ensure children are cared for in an environment that enhances their social, emotional and cognitive development and respects the diversity of culture and belief systems. 

Our educators

All educators are registered with our Service and have gone through a recruitment process prior to approval, once approved Educators must follow education and care law and regulations, National Quality Standards and Busy Butterflies Education and Care Service policies and procedures. Educators are supported and monitored by our qualified a knowledgeable coordination team.

Educators are qualified or qualifying in a minimum of Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care, and 80 % of educators have their Diploma in Early Childhood Education and Care or are working towards this qualification.

Locations

Busy Butterflies Education and Care Service provides education and care across the Brisbane suburbs, Ipswich, Logan, Scenic Rim, Redlands & Gold Coast.

Busy Butterflies Education and Care Service office is located at Cedar Grove and our coordinators visit all educators regularly, maintaining consistent contact with them also via phone, email, newsletters and through contact at training and other activities including playgroups and excursions.

Fees and subsidies

Family Day Care educators set their own fees which must be approved by the Busy Butterflies Education and Care Service coordination office. Their fee is based on their own Family Day Care Budget and includes a parent and educator levy charged by the service.

Child Care Subsidy is available for eligible families.

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Facts about family day care services

• Provide education and care for children from birth to 12 years old (for up to 7 children - including 4 children not yet in school).
• Available for a full day, part day, overnight or weekends.
• Educators have individual working hours and fee structures.
• Family day care educators must:
  • Hold or be working towards minimum of a Certificate III qualification
  • Hold approved first aid qualification HLTAID004 This includes anaphylaxis management training and emergency asthma management training and CPR Training
  • Educators and all persons over the ag of 18 in the home must have a working with children’s check (Blue Card)
  • Educators must have a Federal police Checks Prior to commencement
• Services must comply with a range of Legislative requirements
• Educators are monitored and supported by a family day care scheme coordination unit that consists of qualified family day care coordinators.

Busy Butterflies Education and Care Service is approved by the Department of Education Busy Butterflies Education and Care Service is a member of the Australian Family Day Care Association and the Family Day Care Association of Queensland.

Community Playgroup

We run a community playgroup on Thursdays from 9am to 12 pm called Busy Butterflies Butterfly Garden Playgroup at 9 - 13 Flametree Court, Cedar Grove QLD (closed over Christmas holidays and all public holidays)
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