New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

CHILDREN'S SERVICES REGULATION 2004 - REG 66

66 Supervision of children

(1) All children’s services The licensee and authorised supervisor of a children’s service must ensure that no member of the primary contact staff, a family day care carer or the home based licensee is performing other duties while supervising children.

(2) The licensee and authorised supervisor of a children’s service must ensure that children at the service are supervised at all times (including while they are asleep) having regard to their ages and physical and intellectual development and to the activities in which they are engaged.

(3) In the case of a family day care children’s service, the obligations of an authorised supervisor under subclauses (1) and (2) are taken to be the obligations of each family day care carer of the service.

(4) Centre based or mobile children’s service If, in the case of a centre based or mobile children’s service, the toilet, hand washing and bathing facilities are not visible or easily accessible from the main areas where the service is provided, children provided with the service must be supervised when using those facilities.

(5) The licensee and authorised supervisor of a centre based or mobile children’s service must use their best endeavours to monitor whether children provided for by the service are able to climb or crawl under any fences or gates on the premises at which the service is provided and, if so, to take appropriate action to prevent them doing so.