Parents & Friends of Family Day Care

Leaving a child with a Family Day Care educator isn’t a transaction. Building that trust costs time, money, and real emotional investment — because you’re bringing your child into a small, trusted community built around their growth. It’s why Family Day Care produces relationships that outlast childhood: educators who go on to care for the children of the children they cared for decades ago. That’s not a by-product. It’s the point.

Which is why regulatory action lands so hard. When a regulator suddenly closes your service or declares your educator “unsafe,” you’re finding new care overnight, supporting your educator through crisis, and reckoning with your own vulnerability — shifts you can’t pick up, leave your employer won’t grant now you’re a full-time carer again. You’re told this keeps your child safe. It feels like the opposite.

You see Family Day Care every day, in a way no regulator does. That observation is valuable — and right now, it has nowhere to go.

Parents & Friends gives it somewhere: a space to speak honestly about Family Day Care’s real strengths and gaps, including for children with disability, neurodivergence, or additional needs, and make sure your voice reaches the people shaping the sector’s future.

Joining is free and takes two minutes. Your experience is evidence. Bring it to the table.