New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

CHILDREN'S SERVICES REGULATION 2004 - REG 62

62 Caring for school children at service-centre based or mobile children’s service

(1) The licensee of a centre based or mobile children’s service must ensure that if any school child is provided with education or care by the licensee:

(a) the access of any pre-school child attending the service to facilities and staff of the service is not diminished, and

(b) any programs provided for pre-school children attending the service are not adversely affected, and

(c) if all the school children attending the service are attending school in kindergarten or Year 1, the total number of school children who are cared for at the premises of the service is not greater than 20% of the number of children specified in the licence for the service, and

(d) if any school children attending the service are attending school other than in kindergarten or Year 1, the total number of school children who are cared for at the premises of the service is not greater than 10% of the number of children specified in the licence for the service.

(2) The percentages referred to in subclause (1) (c) and (d) may be exceeded if:

(a) the indoor and outdoor areas and amenities used by the children are not used at the same time by any other children attending the service, and

(b) the staff providing the service to the children are not at the same time providing the service to any other children attending the service.

(3) Nothing in subclause (1) authorises the licensee to provide education or care to more children (including school children) than the number specified in the licence for the service.

Note: Clause 59 provides that in certain circumstances the Director-General may authorise the licensee of the children’s service to provide a children’s service to a number of children that exceeds the number of children specified in the licence for the service.