EDUCATION AND CARE SERVICES NATIONAL REGULATIONS 2012 - REG 12
EDUCATION AND CARE SERVICES NATIONAL REGULATIONS 2012 - 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 for this subparagraph:
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 for this paragraph:
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.
[Regulation 12 inserted: Gazette
28 Sep 2018 p. 3606‑8.]