Australian Capital Territory Numbered Regulations

CHILDREN'S SERVICES REGULATIONS (NO. 6 OF 1987) - REG 7

7. (1) A licensee of a child care centre shall keep a medical history record and a medication record.

(2) If a child, while at a child care centre or otherwise under the care of a member of staff of the centre for whom care is provided at a child care centre:

        (a)     sustains injury; or

        (b)     is suffering from an illness;

the licensee shall enter in the medical history record the following particulars in relation to that child:

        (c)     his or her name;

        (d)     in the case of an injury—the date on which, the time at which, and the circumstances in which, the injury was sustained;

        (e)     the nature of the injury sustained or illness being suffered, as the case requires;

        (f)     in the case of an infectious disease or a notifiable disease—the name of the disease.

(3) Where medication is administered to a child at a child care centre the licensee shall enter in the medication record the following particulars in relation to that child:

        (a)     his or her name;

        (b)     the name and dosage of the medication;

        (c)     the date on which and the time at which the medication was administered;

        (d)     where the consent, in writing, of a parent to the administration of the medication has been obtained—that fact.