New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

CHILDREN'S SERVICES REGULATION 2004 - REG 64

64 Programs for children

(1) The licensee of a children’s service must develop policies for the development and education of children that set out:

(a) the level of involvement of children, parents and staff in the development of the curriculum, and

(b) the ways in which the service ensures that individual children’s interests are taken into account, and

(c) the ways in which children will be assisted in the transition to other early childhood programs or to school.

(2) The authorised supervisor of a children’s service must ensure that there is provided a program of activities that:

(a) balances indoor and outdoor experiences, and

(b) stimulates and develops each child’s social, physical, emotional, cognitive, language and creative potential, and

(c) is appropriate to the individual needs and development level of each child, and

(d) is capable of engaging the interest of children, and

(e) allows children to freely select experiences, and

(f) is appropriate to the development of children.

(3) In the case of a family day care children’s service, the obligations of an authorised supervisor under subclause (2) are taken to be the obligations of each family day care carer of the service.