About Family Day Care 

Open Arms Care Inc. Family Day Care is a community-based quality early childhood education service covering the Mid North Coast of NSW.
Family Day Care Educators are Early Childhood Education and Care Professional who provide safe, stimulating and educational learning environments in their own homes.

A Family Day Care Service can provide flexible hours of care including long day care, part time or casual care, before and after school care, and care during school holidays, overnight or on weekends. Services may also provide respite care and other non-work-related child care.

Educators work with small groups of no more than four children under school age at any one time. (an educator may care for 3 additional school age children, outside of school hours)

Educators work with Open Arms Care as the Approved Provider that carries out regular visits to monitor the children’s individual development and provide support to Family Day Care Educators.

Please click here to view Open Arms Care’s Family Day Care Philosophy

Parents may be eligible for Federal Government Child Care Subsidies to assist families with cost of child care.

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Updated Policies

https://www.openarms.org.au/wp-content/uploads/Excursion-Policy.pdf

https://www.openarms.org.au/wp-content/uploads/Transport-Policy.pdf

https://www.openarms.org.au/wp-content/uploads/Delivery-and-Collection-of-Children-Policy.pdf