Educator Safety and Practice Audits

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Have you heard about our new Educator Safety and Practice Audits? In conjunction with some of the leading FDC Services in Australia we have released 30 checklists for Services covering a wide range of areas including; Safe Sleep (including Cot and Environment) Documentation and Programming Evacuation Practice Fencing First Aid Kits Hand Washing and Nappy Change Transportation of Children Water Safety These add to the core offering of FDSee, embedding best practice into your Family Day Care Service, not just tacking things on. Contact us today to find out more.

Educator Safety and Practice Audits are coming

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With the renewed focus on Risk assessment and Management in mind FDSee, in conjunction with some of the leading FDC Services in Australia, has developed a range of over 30 new Educator Safety and Practice checklists for Coordinators and Service Staff. More details to come soon. In the meantime check out this from the latest ECEC Connect Newsletter: Approved providers and service personnel are responsible for ensuring the safety, health and wellbeing of the children under their care. This means doing everything possible to protect children from harm and hazards at all times. The majority of services are compliant with the National Quality Framework; however, the latest data shows there … Read More

Record Keeping in Family Day Care

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Family Day Care Services : Did you know? With FDSee you can send emails to Educators by Group, by Coordinator assignment or Service wide. Each message is then recorded in the Educator’s individual Communication Record – along with every other interaction you have with them in FDSee. You can then create an Educator specific or Service wide Record of Communication Report, summarising all interactions with your Educators, including; Visit Reports, Safety Audits, Requests for Care, Notes, Practice Audits, Documentation Reminders and Service Emails. This coupled with our one click generation of Educator Registers, Staff Registers and Vacancy Reports gives you the full picture for your Service. From ACECQA: WHY IS … Read More

FDSee is 8 and still growing

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Next month FDSee will have been in operation with Australian Family Day Care Services for 8 years.   Our technology has continually evolved over than time ensuring we provide the most comprehensive and valuable Operational Management System for Family Day Care in Australia.   We are proud to have a full range of Family Day Care Services using our application, from just a few Educators to many hundred, from Government to Council, Private and Community based. We have Services from every state and territory in Australia, including the majority of Family Day Care Australia – Excellence in Family Day Care Awards Service winners.   If you are in a Family … Read More

FDSee Now Australia Wide

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We are pleased to announce that the South Australian Department for Education has signed up for FDSee and is in the process of implementing our software across all it’s 12 Family Day Care Schemes. In the last month or so we have also welcomed a number of other new clients on board from around Australia – meaning we now have users from every State and Territory around the country! In the current environment FDSee offers a number of unique benefits to enable remote working and access by field based coordinators and managers to critical Educator and Service information. If you want to find out what makes FDSee a must for … Read More

Compliance is now free!

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We’ve just removed all fees from our Registers and Reports. Now demonstrating compliance is not only easier, with FDSee it’s free! Check out how FDSee can help you with compliance; Educator Register / Staff Register Demonstrates compliance with Regulation 153/154 Record of Educator Communication Demonstrates compliance with Regulation 116/154 Working with Children Check (Blue Card) Register Demonstrates compliance with Regulation 153/154 Not using FDSee – try it for free today. It’s Family Day Care Coordinated.  

Compliance Made Easier

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How would you retrieve all records of your communication with an Educator if asked by the Department? With FDSee, you just click and its listed, or you can search for a category or keyword. No searching through old notebooks or filing cabinets, its right there. Over time you record all interactions with the Educator to build a full picture of their history with you. It can easily help identify trends in issues of non-compliance, or assist in distribution of key information to staff. This is Family Day Care coordinated. You can also access your full Educator Register or Working With Children Check Register with one click? Try FDSee and find … Read More

What do our users say about FDSee?

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We don’t need to blow our own trumpet. Our users do it for us, just listen… “Now we’re using it, I don’t know how we managed without it” “The perfect tool to manage compliance and record keeping” “It’s saving me around 30-40 minutes per Educator visit” “Very impressed, and it’s so user friendly” “Such a time saver when it comes to paper work” “We love it!” .. and yes we know its not a trumpet 🙂 #familydaycarecoordinated #yourwindowonfdc        

ACECQA Fact Sheet on Compliance and Record Keeping

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Are you up to date with the new fact sheet from ACECQA on record keeping in Family Day Care? FDSee covers all the bases for your Service, enabling compliance and making you more efficient. Check out the information below and click on the link for the fact sheet. Approved providers and family day care educators are responsible for compliance with record keeping requirements in accordance with the Education and Care Services National Law. However, other staff such as family day care co-ordinators and nominated supervisors are often responsible for overseeing record keeping practices in family day care services and for ensuring day-to-day compliance with record keeping requirements. It is important … Read More

Requests for Care, Waitlists and Referrals

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How do you manage your Requests for Care? Do you have whiteboards? Multiple lists? Spreadheets? Paper? Do you wish you had a system to manage all of this for you, linked to your Educators and Families? FDSee can do all of this for you. You simply enter the Requests for Care as they come in, assign your waitlisted or referred Educators and FDSee does the rest for you – sending emails to parents and Educators (and all these emails can be turned off and/or totally customised to fit your own process). When a child is ‘Placed’ all the details in the system are updated, the child is assigned to the Educator … Read More