Baw Baw Family Day Care nominated for 12 awards

Baw Baw Family Day Care nominated for 12 awards

Published on 18 August 2020

Baw Baw Shire Council’s Family Day Care service has received 12 nominations for the 2020 Excellence in Family Day Care Awards.

The annual awards recognise the amazing work done by educators, coordinators and services in the family day care sector to deliver high quality early childhood education and care to children across Australia. They are the only national awards dedicated entirely to the family day care sector.

The following nominations have been received:

Service of the Year (Victoria & Tasmania Region) – Baw Baw Family Day Care Coordinator of the Year (Victoria & Tasmania Region) – Julie Metselaar Educator of the Year (Victoria & Tasmania Region) – Jody-Lynne Banfield Educator of the Year (Victoria & Tasmania Region) – Anne Bell Educator of the Year (Victoria & Tasmania Region) – Poorni De Silva Educator of the Year (Victoria & Tasmania Region) – Amy Ellis Educator of the Year (Victoria & Tasmania Region) – Tracy Lechte Educator of the Year (Victoria & Tasmania Region) – Belinda Ryer Educator of the Year (Victoria & Tasmania Region) – Rachael Smith Educator of the Year (Victoria & Tasmania Region) – Martha Smith Educator of the Year (Victoria & Tasmania Region) – Sophie Gray Educator of the Year (Victoria & Tasmania Region) – Briony Thomas

All nominees will be invited to a gala dinner in October where winners will be announced.

For more information about the awards, go to 2020 Excellence in Family Day Care Awards.

Baw Baw Shire Council’s Family Day Care team are a consistently high-performing service having received multiple nominations and winning four awards at the 2019 awards. See full details from 2019 at Baw Baw Family Day Care wins four awards.

About Family Day Care

Family Day Care is a home-based Commonwealth Child Care Program operated by Baw Baw Shire Council. Care is provided for a maximum of four young children in the homes of registered and approved educators. Care may be full time, part-time or casual, with children also able to access care before and after school or kindergarten, outside regular hours or overnight.

During 2019/20, 31 Family Day Care educators have provided 140,135 hours of care to 388 children from 201 families across the Shire.

Baw Baw Family Day Care is a consistently high-performing service, rated as Exceeding the National Standards under the National Quality Framework, designed by Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority. This rating means going ‘above and beyond’ what is expected at the standard level.

Additionally, in 2019 Baw Baw’s Family Day Care program celebrated 30 amazing years of quality care and education for children and families in Baw Baw.

For more information about the service, go to Family Day Care.

Quotes attributable to Mayor Cr Danny Goss

“Congratulations to the team and individuals who have received an award nomination, some for the second year in a row! This is an incredibly professional team providing consistently high-quality care to children and families in our community. It’s been an especially challenging year so far due to COVID-19 and I praise the team for adapting to the new requirements and restrictions that have come your way. We wish you all success in each of the nomination categories.”