On a regular (yearly) basis; FDC car seat checks must be done at family day care centres, to ascertain the continuing safety and to verify the knowledge of the educator. Whether the Family Day Care centre is with the council or is an independent family day care centre, FDC car seat checks must be done correctly by an professional accredited car seat installer.
Accredited FDC Car Seat Checks expert
The car seat fitters at Travel Safe are ACRI accredited; and experienced in checking your family day care centre (FDC) child restraints. Travel Safe work closely with Glen Eira, Kingston and Casey Council Family day centres.
At Travel Safe; we check your FDC car seats; one by one; checking to ensure the webbing is in good condition, there are no twists; the harness is threaded correctly as well as making sure the baby car seat is installed correctly. Additionally we ensure the car seat is still within the 10 year age limit and note this on the paperwork.
Expert guidance
As seasoned professional car seat installers; we want you to be in control of your car seats, and not rely upon outside car seat technicians. We provide you with the necessary clips; to ensure that you can install the baby car seats just as we can. When there are errors in the installation we explain why there is an issue and how to overcome the problem.
The Cost to check 4 car seats for a family day care centre is $60. This does not include the cost of any parts and doe nost include re-installation.
Please ensure you have all your paper work and the car seat identities ready and available. I will show you how to maintain your baby car seats and make recommendations for new car seats.
FDC Car seat Checks – Seat Usage
The installation of the baby car seat is just the first step in the FDC Car Seat Check; the next step is understanding how the seat works and the limitations of the seat such as what age is it appropriate for, how to adjust the harness and when a child should move to larger seat.
Mobile technicians to you
As mobile car seat fitters, we come to your family day care centre for the car seat checks; you can continue to run your Family day Care centre, without interruption. Travel Safe Family Day Care centre experts, and mobile car seat fitting service come to you and check all your child restraints, and ensure you know how to safely maintain your family day care centre child restraints.