EDUCATION AND CARE SERVICES NATIONAL REGULATIONS - REG 12 Meaning of serious incident

EDUCATION AND CARE SERVICES NATIONAL REGULATIONS - REG 12

12 Meaning of serious incident

For the purposes of the definition of
"serious incident" in section 5(1) of the Law, each of the following is prescribed as a serious incident--

(a) the death of a child--

(i) while that child is being educated and cared for by an education and care service; or

(ii) following an incident occurring while that child was being educated and cared for by an education and care service;

(b) any incident involving serious injury or trauma to a child occurring while that child is being educated and cared for by an education and care service--

(i) which a reasonable person would consider required urgent medical attention from a registered medical practitioner; or

(ii) for which the child attended, or ought reasonably to have attended, a hospital;

Example : A broken limb.

(c) any incident involving serious illness of a child occurring while that child is being educated and cared for by an education and care service for which the child attended, or ought reasonably to have attended, a hospital;

Example : Severe asthma attack, seizure or anaphylaxis reaction.

(d) any emergency for which emergency services attended;

(e) any circumstance where a child being educated and cared for by an education and care service--

(i) appears to be missing or cannot be accounted for; or

(ii) appears to have been taken or removed from the education and care service premises in a manner that contravenes these Regulations; or

(iii) is mistakenly locked in or locked out of the education and care service premises or any part of the premises.