The FDCA 2022 National Conference took place from 15 – 17 September 2022 at the Hotel Grand Chancellor in Hobart, and brought together stakeholders from the family day care and early childhood education and care sector – to connect and discuss key issues that are impacting the sector.
Kidsafe Tasmania CEO Jenny Branch-Allen and Road Safety Manager Peter Gillon presented on the subject “STRENGTHENING OUR WORK WITH FAMILY DAY CARE IN TASMANIA”. This was a great opportunity to strengthen our ties with Family Day Carers, and also learn from national and state FDC speakers and participants from across the sector.
Our presentation was in 2 parts:
- Jenny showed how by working proactively with individual day carers, we ensured that during COVID children were travelling in correctly fitted seat belts at a time when no-one else was available to help.
- Peter described how we corrected the main problems found in child restraints during the COVID time restrictions, and how simple mistakes in fitting a child restraint can lead to injury or worse in a serious car accident.
We also illustrated innovative ways Kidsafe assisted family day carers during this period. Click here to view the presentation slides.
Kidsafe Tasmania also had a display throughout the conference. See Jenny below doing a great job of showcasing our core services and products to the state and national Family Day Care sector.
A first-class line-up of key note speakers provided delegates with the opportunity to select from a wide variety of workshops. These interactive workshop sessions covered a range of different topics that appealed to all those within the sector.
