New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

CHILDREN'S SERVICES REGULATION 2004 - REG 81

81 Medication

(1) The licensee of a children’s service must ensure that:

(a) a policy is developed and maintained concerning the administration of medication to children, and

(b) procedures to implement that policy are developed and observed.

(2) The authorised supervisor of a children’s service must ensure that:

(a) medication is not administered to a child being provided with the service without written authorisation or authority from a parent of the child, and

(b) medication is administered from the container in which it was originally packaged, being (in the case of a prescription medicine) a container that is labelled with the child’s name, the prescribed dosage and the medicine’s use by date, and

(c) if it is necessary in an emergency to administer medication to a child that is being provided with the service without the prior consent of the child’s parent, every attempt is made to secure that consent.

(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.