EDUCATION AND CARE SERVICES NATIONAL REGULATIONS 2012 - REG 90
EDUCATION AND CARE SERVICES NATIONAL REGULATIONS 2012 - REG 90
90 . Medical conditions policy
(1) The medical
conditions policy of the education and care service must set out practices in
relation to the following —
(a) the
management of medical conditions, including asthma, diabetes or a diagnosis
that a child is at risk of anaphylaxis;
(b)
informing nominated supervisors and staff members of, and volunteers at, the
service of practices in relation to managing those medical conditions;
(c) the
requirements arising if a child enrolled at the education and care service has
a specific health care need, allergy or relevant medical condition,
including —
(i)
requiring a parent of the child to provide a medical
management plan for the child; and
(ii)
requiring the medical management plan to be followed in
the event of an incident relating to the child’s specific health care
need, allergy or relevant medical condition; and
(iii)
requiring the development of a risk‑minimisation
plan in consultation with the parents of a child —
(A) to ensure that the risks relating to
the child’s specific health care need, allergy or relevant medical
condition are assessed and minimised; and
(B) if relevant, to ensure that practices
and procedures in relation to the safe handling, preparation, consumption and
service of food are developed and implemented; and
(C) if relevant, to ensure that practices
and procedures to ensure that the parents are notified of any known allergens
that pose a risk to a child and strategies for minimising the risk are
developed and implemented; and
(D) to ensure that practices and procedures
ensuring that all staff members and volunteers can identify the child, the
child’s medical management plan and the location of the child’s
medication are developed and implemented; and
(E) if relevant, to ensure that practices
and procedures ensuring that the child does not attend the service without
medication prescribed by the child’s medical practitioner in relation to
the child’s specific health care need, allergy or relevant medical
condition are developed and implemented;
and
(iv)
requiring the development of a communications plan to
ensure that —
(A) relevant staff members and volunteers
are informed about the medical conditions policy and the medical management
plan and risk minimisation plan for the child; and
(B) a child’s parent can communicate
any changes to the medical management plan and risk minimisation plan for the
child, setting out how that communication can occur.
(2) The medical
conditions policy of the education and care service must set out practices in
relation to self‑administration of medication by children over preschool
age if the service permits that self‑administration.
(3) In
subregulation (2), the practices must include any practices relating to
recording in the medication record for a child of notifications from the child
that medication has been self‑administered.
[Regulation 90 amended: Gazette
28 Sep 2018 p. 3620.]