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Quality care in a home environment
Far West Day Care offers highly personalised, flexible, quality care for children aged 6 weeks to 12 years. They are nurtured in a small group setting and, through the educators’ individualised programming, are encouraged to further develop their skills and knowledge.
Family Day Care Services offer very flexible hours, and provide children with the comfort of a nurturing, home environment.
Far West Family Day Care engages trained and registered educators who provide care for other people’s children in their own homes. Educators have been carefully selected, supervised and operate under the Education and Care Services National Regulations and receive regular compliance checks. This is designed to ensure that your child receives the best possible care as well as ensuring quality and continuous improvement of the Family Day Care educators.
You may not know that Family Day Care also offers access to holiday care, before and after school care, after hours and even overnight care.
About our Service
Cobar Shire Council is the approved provider for Far West Family Day Care servicing Cobar, Broken Hill, Lightning Ridge, and Bourke. Far West Family Day Care Offices are located in Cobar and Broken Hill. We currently support 22 Educators across the area. All children using our service will be required to register with our service prior to staring care.
Broken Hill
Address: 246 Oxide Street, Broken Hill NSW 2880
Contact Person: Stacey Smith
Phone: 0439 988 297
Email: childrensservices@cobar.nsw.gov.au
Office Hours: 8:30am – 4:30pm
Cobar
Address: 43 Linsley Street, Cobar NSW 2835
Contact Person: Joanne Morley
Phone: 02 6836 1156
Email: childrensservices@cobar.nsw.gov.au
Office Hours: 9:00am – 2:00pm
Far West Family Day Care is Child Care Subsidy (CCS) approved. Families are required to complete a Child Care Subsidy Claim through their Centrelink account to find out their eligibility, this will reduce the families out of pocket expenses.
Far West Family Day Care charge a Professional Partnership Fee to all families, this fee assists with covering the operational cost of the office. Each educator sets their own fees.
Families will be provided a copy of their educator’s Complying Written Agreement (CWA) before commencing care.
Being a Family Day Care educator is probably the most rewarding career you can have. As an educator you get to work from home, choose which hours and days suit you, you have full control over the operations of your business, plus you can look after your own children while you look after others.
You will be required to have:
What is In Home Care?
In Home Care is a flexible and affordable form of quality child care that takes place in your own home, provided by a registered educator, for children from 6 weeks to 12 years old. In Home Care is for families that can’t access other forms of child care, such as centre-based care or family day care due to geographical isolation, non-standard working hours and complex needs.
In Home Care allows you to select your own individual educator that meets the needs of your own family. In Home Care is much more than ‘just babysitting’, educators are required to offer your children opportunities to learn, develop and grow through quality play-based learning.
How to Access In Home Care
Families need to contact Far West In Home Care. We will provide you with all the relevant information on getting started with our service and how to contact NSW In Home Care Support Agency, who assess your eligibility and develop a family management plan with you.
About our Service
Cobar Shire Council is the approved provider for Far West In Home Care, servicing Far West NSW. Far West In Home Care Office is located in Cobar We currently support approximately 50 Educators across our Far West Region.
Address: 43 Linsley Street, Cobar NSW 2835
Contact Person: Anne Thornley
Phone: 02 6836 1156
Email: fdcadmin@cobar.nsw.gov.au
Office Hours: 9:00am – 2:00pm
Far West in Home Care is Child Care Subsidy (CCS) approved. Families are required to complete a Child Care Subsidy Claim through their Centrelink account to find out their eligibility, this will reduce the families out of pocket expenses.
Far West in Home Care charge a Professional Partnership Fee to all families, this fee assists with covering the operational cost of the office.
For more information, please contact Far West in Home Care.
You will be required to have:
Cobar Outside of School Hours Care (COOSH) provide care, play and learning for primary school-age children before and after school, in school holidays and on some pupil free days (minimum numbers required).
The benefits of COOSH include:
Our services offer a valuable opportunity for children to access developmental play opportunities, and encourage friendships beyond the classroom and across age groups.
We focus on developing the social and emotional skills of the child through school connectedness, self-management, self-efficacy and social awareness. These skills are linked to children’s overall wellbeing.
Address: 43 Linsley Street, Cobar NSW 2835
Contact Person: Tamara Fitzsimmons
Phone: 02 6836 1156
Email: fdcadmin@cobar.nsw.gov.au
Office Hours: 9:00am – 2:00pm
COOSH is Child Care Subsidy(CCS) approved. Families are required to complete a Child Care Subsidy Claim through their Centrelink account to find out their eligibility, this will reduce the families out of pocket expenses.
To view current fees, please click here.
COOSH Operates:
Vacation care is not operational over Christmas/New Years. Our service closes at the end of session the last day of term 4 and reopens on the first working day after New Years day.