Western Australian Consolidated Regulations

CHILD CARE SERVICES (OUTSIDE SCHOOL HOURS CARE) REGULATIONS 2006

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 -- Preliminary  

   1.      Citation  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Terms used in these regulations  
   4.      Meaning of “school age”  
   5.      Meaning of “on duty”  
   6.      Meaning of “qualified rescuer”  
   7.      Outside school hours care service prescribed  

   PART 2 -- Licences  

           Division 1 -- Prescribed matters  

   8.      Prescribed qualifications: section 12(2)(c)  
   9.      Prescribed details: section 33  

           Division 2 -- Applications  

   10.     Prescribed time for renewal applications  
   11.     Documents and information to accompany application  
   12.     Change of supervising officer  
   13.     Application for person to act in place of licensee or supervising officer  

           Division 3 -- Matters ancillary to applications  

   14.     Referees  
   15.     Advertisement of application for licence  
   17.     Objections  

           Division 4 -- Surrenders  

   18.     Surrender of licences  

   PART 3 -- Obligations of licensee  

           Division 1 -- General obligations  

   19.     Exemptions  
   20.     Notification of change of circumstances  
   21.     Notification of harm to enrolled child  
   22.     Visual images of enrolled child  

           Division 2 -- Staffing requirements  

   23.     Presence of supervising officer at place  
   24.     Staff supervision of enrolled children  
   25.     Additional staff  
   26.     Absent or indisposed staff  
   27.     Criminal record check for each staff member  
   28.     Employment of person convicted of a prescribed offence  

           Division 3 -- Requirements for place or obligations relating to place  

   29.     Play areas on place  
   30.     Display of licence  
   31.     Telephone  
   32.     Boundaries to place and play areas  
   33.     Play equipment and materials  
   34.     First aid kit  
   35.     Cleanliness, maintenance and repair of place  
   36.     Smoke or fire detectors  
   37.     Animals on place  
   38.     Place not to be used as a residence  
   39.     People convicted of a prescribed offence banned from place  
   40.     Application to modify the place  

           Division 4 -- Operating procedures  

   41.     Compliance with procedures  
   42.     Emergency procedures and rehearsals  
   43.     Behaviour management procedures  
   44.     Procedure for dealing with parent’s concerns  
   45.     Bathroom procedures  
   46.     Transport procedures  

           Division 5 -- Administration of care service  

   47.     Enrolment form  
   48.     Record of medication  
   49.     Record of injury or accident  
   50.     Record of attendance  
   51.     Record of excursions  
   52.     Other records  
   53.     Storing records  
   54.     Confidentiality of records  
   55.     Falsification of records  
   56.     Parent visit  
   57.     Insurance  

           Division 6 -- Mobile services  

   58.     Application of regulations to mobile services  
   59.     Mobile telephone  

   PART 4 -- Operating the outside school hours care service  

           Division 1 -- Children at care session  

   60.     Children who are not enrolled children  
   61.     Care for children in exceptional circumstances  

           Division 2 -- Contact staff requirements  

   62.     Minimum contact staff  
   63.     Contact staff reduction during short periods  
   64.     Contact staff reduction during lunch periods  

           Division 3 -- Programmes and behaviour management  

   65.     Programmes  
   66.     Managing the behaviour of children  

           Division 4 -- Excursions and sleepovers  

   67.     Excursions from the place  
   68.     First aid kit on excursions  
   69.     Excursion plans  
   70.     Contact staff in charge of excursions  
   71.     Routine excursions: staff numbers  
   72.     Sleepovers: staff numbers  
   73.     Challenging activity excursions: staff numbers  
   74.     Engaging in challenging activities on excursions  
   75.     Transport of enrolled children  

           Division 5 -- Water activities  

   76.     Additional requirements for water activities  
   77.     Wading or paddling pools at the place  
   78.     Contact staff member in charge of water activities  
   79.     Water activities generally  
   80.     Water activities: contact staff required  

           Division 6 -- Safety and health of enrolled children  

   81.     Protection of enrolled children leaving the place  
   82.     Illness or accident to enrolled child  
   83.     Hygiene standards  
   84.     Alcohol and drugs  
   85.     Smoking  

   PART 5 -- Other matters  

   86.     Medical examination  
   87.     Notification of convictions  
   88.     Continued operation of service in certain circumstances  
           SCHEDULE 1 -- Contact staff requirements  
           SCHEDULE 2 -- Risk assessment form for water activities  
           Compilation table
           
[Reprinted under the Reprints Act 1984 as at 5 October 2007 Child Care Services (Outside School Hours Care) Regulations 2006]