New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

EDUCATION AND CARE SERVICES NATIONAL REGULATIONS - REG 299

299 General qualification requirements for educators--children over preschool age

(1) This regulation sets out the qualification requirement for educators at a centre-based service educating and caring for children over pre-school age for the purposes of regulation 126(2).

(2) On any day that the centre-based service educates and cares for children over preschool age, at least one educator who holds or is actively working towards a minimum 2 year relevant qualification must be present at the education and care service premises--

(a) if the service educates and cares for children over preschool age for more than 7 hours and 15 minutes on that day--for at least 7 hours and 15 minutes of the time the service is educating and caring for children over preschool age; or

(b) otherwise--at all times the service is educating and caring for children over preschool age.

(3) The qualification requirements in subregulation (2) do not apply to an educator if the educator is at least 18 years of age and has been engaged at the education and care service for not more than 6 months.

(4) If the centre-based service educates and cares for 30 or more children over preschool age at least one educator for every 30 children over preschool age must hold, or be actively working towards, at least a 1 year relevant qualification.

(5) The qualification requirements in subregulation (4) do not apply to an educator if the educator is at least 18 years of age and has been engaged at the education and care service for not more than 3 months.

(6) All educators who are under 18 years of age must hold or be actively working towards at least a minimum 1 year relevant qualification.

(7) In this regulation--

"relevant qualification" means a qualification that is published under regulation 137(2) in the list of approved qualifications for educators working with children over preschool age for Queensland.