Early childhood education and care services must ensure staffing requirements are met as part of their responsibility to provide quality and safe care to children.
Find out about the roles and responsibilities required within a service to comply with minimum staffing requirements.
Find out about the required educator-to-child ratios for early childhood education and care services.
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.
The department is supporting eligible service providers who are having difficulty meeting certain operational requirements.
The Notification Decision Tree (NDT) can assist in deciding whether a notification is required and the timeframe in which that notification should be made.