Tasmanian Licensing Standards for Centre Based Child Care Class 5 (0-12 Years) - Tasmania

Description

You will need to comply with these standards to provide occasional care for children between the ages of 0 - 12 years. Occasional care can only be provided by class 5 centre based child care licence holders.

Class 5 licence holders provide occasional care to children for periods of time less than 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, and 48 weeks a year.

These standards outline the minimum requirements you will need to follow and cover topics such as:

  • standards for fit and proper persons
  • carer qualifications
  • ratio of carers to children
  • furniture, equipment and bedding
  • safe environments
  • administration and records
  • emergency procedures, first aid and administration of medicine.

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.

Act(s) name

Child Care Act 2001 Tasmania

Administering agency

Department for Education, Children and Young People

Education and Care Unit

Contact details

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