Upper Hunter Family Day Care

Upper Hunter Family Day Care, celebrating 40 years of early childhood education and care services.

Upper Hunter Family Day Care registers and mentors qualified Educators to provide education and care from their own homes. We are among the very first schemes to be established when Family Day Care started in 1979, and have now been operating for more than 35 years. Upper Hunter Shire Council sponsors the scheme, which services an area of over 13, 000 square kilometres across both Upper Hunter and Muswellbrook shires. We have Educators registered in Scone, Merriwa, Aberdeen, Muswellbrook, and Denman. UHFDC has four staff who are locally based in Scone, and readily available to assist families in sourcing their family-based care arrangements, as well as provide personalised ongoing support to each of our Educators, and develop individual learning opportunities for our children. We are proud to have been independently assessed and rated as not only meeting National Quality Standards for education and care services, but exceeding these standards in areas of collaborative partnerships with families and communities, leadership and service management, and staffing arrangements.