National Quality Standard for Child Care and Education Services - Northern Territory

Description

You will need to comply with the National Quality Standard (NQS) to provide child care services. The NQS applies to family day care services and centre-based services.

The standard provides national benchmarks for the quality of education and care services. Your education and care service will be assessed against the standard.

An existing service approval may be suspended or terminated if the service is assessed as failing to meet the standard.

Service type

Code of Practice

A code of practice is a set of rules which details how people in a certain industry should behave. A code of practice can be defined as a result of legislation or by industry regulators and bodies.

Other resources

Regulation(s) name

Education and Care Services National Regulations 2018 Northern Territory

Administering agency

Department of Education

Quality Education and Care NT

Contact details

Contact Email, Phone and Address Details for this service in simple two column table format, header then data.