Membership

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Three memberships. Educators and Managers are statutory members of the company. Parents and Friends is a free public membership and is not placed on the statutory register.

Educators

Family Day Care Educators

What you get

  • Educators’ room and peer community, with anonymous posting
  • Member-only resources and insider reports
  • Support preparing VECRA correspondence
  • A real voice in shaping regulation

Join as Family Day Care Educators. After this short form you will go to a secure Whop checkout ($2 per week). Your answers help the Alliance speak with evidence.

Step 1 of 2. Name, email and postcode only.

Join the Family Day Care Alliance Membership for FDC Educators — $2 per week

Every child deserves to thrive, not just be supervised.

Quality early education means real environments — where children learn to use scissors, cross roads, climb, garden, and interact with animals safely, guided by a skilled educator. That's the standard FDC educators already hold. It shouldn't feel risky to meet it.

Right now it does. Do everything right, and your Service can still be suspended over another educator's conduct — at real financial and reputational cost, regardless of fault. Fear-driven regulation is pushing services toward sanitised environments — harm that surfaces only years later, in children missing the skills and resilience they needed early.

This is the gap the Alliance exists to close: we advocate for fair, proportionate, risk-based regulation in line with VECRA's own position statement, engaging constructively with regulators and experts.

FDC educators are often a child's most consistent relationship through NDIS, Child Protection and family-support transitions. That continuity is expertise — and deserves a seat at the table.

For $2 a week, get insider reports, a professional alliance where your voice carries weight — the Educators' room and peer community (anonymous posting available), member-only resources, VECRA response support, and a real voice in shaping regulation.

You've built the expertise. Now build the collective that backs it.

Join today — $2 per week.

Billed every 7 days. The first payment is one week ($2), not the remaining weeks of the calendar month. Checkout may add tax on top of the listed price. A $1 joining fee under the draft constitution is absorbed into that first week, so you still pay $2.

Already a member? Open the member hub. Before you join, read the draft constitution and the draft Code of Conduct.

Questions

Before you join

Who can join?

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.

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How much does membership cost?

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.

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What is the difference between Parents and Friends and Educator or Manager membership?

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.

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Can I post anonymously?

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.

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How do I join?

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.

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