Western Australian Consolidated Regulations

CHILD CARE SERVICES (OUTSIDE SCHOOL HOURS FAMILY DAY 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 “qualified rescuer”  
   6.      Outside school hours family day care service prescribed  

   PART 2 -- Licences  

           Division 1 -- Prescribed matters  

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

           Division 2 -- Applications  

   9.      Prescribed time for renewal applications  
   10.     Documents and information to accompany application  
   11.     Change of place  
   12.     Application for person to act in place of licensee and transitional  

           Division 3 -- Matters ancillary to applications  

   13.     Referees  
   14.     Advertisement of application for licence  
   16.     Objections  

           Division 4 -- Surrenders  

   17.     Surrender of licences  

   PART 3 -- Obligations of licensee  

           Division 1 -- General obligations  

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

           Division 2 -- Supervision requirements  

   22.     Supervising officer present at the place  
   23.     Supervision of enrolled children  

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

   24.     Display of licence  
   25.     Telephone  
   26.     Play equipment and materials  
   27.     First aid kit  
   28.     Cleanliness, maintenance and repair of place  
   29.     Smoke or fire detectors  
   29A.    Heating  
   30.     Animals on place  
   31.     People convicted of a prescribed offence banned from place  
   32.     Application to modify the place  

           Division 4 -- Operating procedures  

   33.     Compliance with procedures  
   34.     Emergency procedures and rehearsals  
   35.     Behaviour management procedures  
   36.     Procedure for dealing with parent’s concerns  
   37.     Transport procedures  

           Division 5 -- Administration of care service  

   38.     Enrolment form  
   39.     Record of medication  
   40.     Record of injury or accident  
   41.     Record of attendance  
   42.     Record of excursions  
   43.     Other records  
   44.     Storing records  
   45.     Confidentiality of records  
   46.     Falsification of records  
   47.     Parent visit  
   48.     Insurance  

   PART 4 -- Operating the outside school hours family day care service  

           Division 1 -- Children at care session  

   49.     Children who are not enrolled children  
   50.     Care for children in exceptional circumstances  

           Division 2 -- Programmes and behaviour management  

   51.     Programmes  
   52.     Managing the behaviour of children  

           Division 3 -- Excursions and sleepovers  

   53.     Excursions from the place  
   54.     First aid kit on excursions  
   55.     Excursion plans  
   56.     Sleepovers  
   57.     Challenging activity excursions  
   58.     Engaging in challenging activities on excursions  
   59.     Transport of enrolled children  

           Division 4 -- Water activities  

   60.     Additional requirements for water activities  
   61.     Wading or paddling pools at the place  
   62.     Swimming pools at the place  
   63.     Supervision of enrolled children and volunteers on an excursion involving water activities  
   64.     Water activities  

           Division 5 -- Safety and health of enrolled children  

   65.     Protection of enrolled children leaving the place  
   66.     Illness or accident to enrolled child  
   67.     Hygiene standards  
   68.     Alcohol and drugs  
   69.     Smoking  

   PART 5 -- Other matters  

   70.     Medical examination  
   71.     Check on new usual occupant  
   72.     Notification of convictions  
   73.     Continued operation of service in certain circumstances  
           SCHEDULE 1 -- 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 Family Day Care) Regulations 2006]