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Child Care Bill 2002
CHILD CARE BILL 2002
EXPLANATORY NOTES
AMENDMENTS IN COMMITTEE
Amendment to clause 96, page 57 of the Bill:
This amendment to the Bill better accommodates care providers in
licensed home based care coming together, by providing that travelling
time is to be disregarded when calculating the time that care providers
spend together or at playgroups.
This amendment provides that a regulation may not allow a period of
care of more than 3 hours (disregarding any travelling time) to be provided
under this section more than once in a week.
In this section, "travelling time" means time during which the children in
care are transported to or from a home or other place for the purpose of a
period of care under the section.
This amendment addresses the Family Day Care sector's concerns that
travelling time should not be included when calculating the time that care
providers spend together or at playgroups. In particular, it will benefit those
care providers who care for children in remote or rural areas, where
travelling time can sometimes be quite lengthy.
Amendment to clause 194, page 104 of the Bill:
This amendment to the Bill omits lines 20 and 21 on page 104, namely
from `the home based service' to `the engagement'. The amendment then
inserts `a home based service, even if the person later resumes being
engaged to carry out the functions of a coordinator of a home based
service.'.
The original clause in the Bill would have prevented a currently engaged
unqualified coordinator from a Family Day Care Scheme from moving to
another Scheme, which would have resulted in a transitionary provision for
family day care that was not as generous as the similar transition provision
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Child Care Bill 2002
for centre based care (see clause 193 of the Bill). As a result, the revised
clause allows an unqualified person currently engaged as a coordinator of a
Family Day Care Scheme to continue to act as a coordinator and to move to
another Scheme to act as a coordinator.
Amendment to Schedule 1, pages 112 and 113 of the Bill, Education
(Accreditation of Non-State Schools) Act 2001:
This amendment to the Bill amends the Education (Accreditation of
Non-State Schools) Act 2001. This amendment is a technical amendment,
which will avoid the circularity of definitions in regard to "non-State
school" under the education legislation and "child care service" under the
Child Care Bill.