FAQs

A Victorian alliance of Family Day Care educators, approved providers, and parents and friends. We protect what is unique about home-based education and care, and we advocate for fair, proportionate, risk-based regulation.

Educators join the Educators membership. Approved providers and persons with management control join the Managers membership. Families and supporters join Parents and Friends, which is free and is not a statutory membership.

Parents and Friends is free. Educators pay $2 every 7 days. Managers pay $10 every 7 days. The first payment is one week, not a prorated remainder of the calendar month. Under the draft constitution a $1 joining fee applies to statutory members and is absorbed into that first payment, so you still pay the weekly rate. Checkout may add tax on top of the listed price.

Educator and Manager members are statutory members of Family Day Care Alliance Limited, with a $1 guarantee on winding up. Parents and Friends are public supporters. They are not placed on the statutory register, and they agree to the Parents and Friends Code of Conduct when they join.

The Code of Conduct is a draft. It has not yet been adopted by the Board. The public page has a short summary and a link to the full PDF. Until the Board adopts it, it is a statement of intended standards, not an adopted rule.

No. The constitution is a draft for Family Day Care Alliance Limited, a public company limited by guarantee. The PDF linked from the constitution page is the controlling draft until the company is formed and the constitution is adopted.

Choose a membership, tell us who you are on a short two-step form, then complete checkout on Whop. Parents and Friends checkout is $0. After you join you will find your group, chat, and (for Educators and Managers) courses in the member hub.

Parents and Friends have a public group. Educators and Managers have member-only rooms, chat, courses with certificates, and support preparing VECRA correspondence. Forums, chat, and courses run in the Alliance member hub on Whop, not as a separate social network.

In member rooms, the draft Code of Conduct allows people to ask a moderator to re-share a contribution without their name. Disparagement is not allowed. Child safety comes first.

Nine directors: two elected by Educators, two elected by Managers, one nominated by Parents and Friends, and four skills-based directors. Terms are two years, with a six-year cap. The Chair serves one year at a time, for no more than four consecutive years. The Executive Officer is not a director.