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Staffing requirements and leadership

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​​Early childhood education and care services must ensure staffing and governance and leadership requirements are met as part of their responsibility to provide quality and safe care to children.

Roles and responsibilities

Find out about the roles and responsibilities required within a service to comply with minimum staffing requirements.

Educator-to-child ratios

Find out about the required educator-to-child ratios for early childhood education and care services.

Qualifications and training

Find out about the approved qualifications required to meet the staffing requirements of early childhood education and care services including first aid, anaphylaxis and asthma management training.

Checking a person’s prohibition status

Find out what to do during initial recruitment and at any stage of employment to ensure staff and volunteers are suitable to provide education and care.​

Waivers for staffing

The department is supporting eligible service providers who are having difficulty meeting certain operational requirements.

Operating multiple home-based activities

What family day care approved providers need to know about current or new educators when they carry out other home-based activities.

Complaints policy

Find out about developing a resolution-focused and effective complaints management system including policies and procedures that inform continuous quality improvement.

Notify the regulatory authority—Notification Decision Tool

The Notification Decision Tree (NDT) can assist in deciding whether a notification is required and the timeframe in which that notification should be made.

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Last updated 05 December 2022