| Top Rating for Local Childcare Provider |
| Monday, 14 December 2009 13:23 |
 Newcastle Five Star Family Day Care has received the thumbs up from the national governing body for child care services. Life Services Manager Deborah Lisson says this is a great achievement on the back of unexpected result earlier in the year. “The scheme just received the long awaited for accreditation decision by National Childcare Accreditation Council (NCAC). The service has been accredited as high quality in all six areas which is a very pleasing result.” “In January 2009 the service received a 'not accredited' status and as a result the accreditation cycle had to be repeated in six months rather than the standard 2 ½ years.” Newcastle Five Star Family Day Care Coordinator Alice Chesney says everyone involved in the scheme, from staff to carers to families, are passionate about providing quality childcare and have worked hard at reviewing policies, procedures and practices to ensure that every child in the service receives quality care every day in every family day care home. “This is a high quality service and the accreditation decision is well deserved.” “The NCAC also commended our commitment to the provision of quality care and professional development opportunities.” The process for accreditation involves completing a self-study carried out by the co-ordination unit, surveys received from carers families, school aged children and staff and a four day NCAC validation visit to the co-ordination unit and seven carers. During the validation visit the carers and scheme were rigorously assessed against 30 principles of quality care in the following six areas: interactions; physical environment; children’s experience; learning and development; health, hygiene, nutrition, safety and wellbeing; carers and co-ordination unit and management & administration. Newcastle Five Star Family Day Care is operated by Newcastle City Council and currently 70 carers care for 550 children each week. Family Day Care offers flexible child care for a small group of children in a registered carers own home. A comprehensive carer registration process is involved to select and train suitable people to run their own successful quality childcare business.
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