777Annual childcare standards report—consultation

777 Annual childcare standards report—consultation (1) This section applies if the director-general proposes to include in a childcare standards report information about a licensed childcare service being operated in a way that does not comply with a childcare services standard. (2) The director-general must give the licensed proprietor of the childcare service a written notice (a childcare standards report notice) stating— (a) the director-general’s proposal; and (b) that the licensed proprietor may, not later than 30 days after the day the notice is given to the licensed proprietor, make a submission about the proposal to the director-general; and (c) that if the proprietor makes a written submission in accordance with the notice, the submission may be included in a childcare standards report. (3) A childcare standards report notice must not include information (a) identifies a person as a person who made a confidential report; or (b) would allow a person’s identity as a person who made a confidential report to be worked out.

(4) Before including in a childcare standards report information about a childcare service being operated in a way that does not comply with a childcare services standard, the director-general must consider any submission made by the licensed proprietor in accordance with the childcare standards report notice. (5) If the director-general decides to include in a childcare standards report information about a licensed childcare service being operated in a way that does not comply with a childcare services standard, the director-general must also include in the report a copy of any written submission given to the director-general by the licensed proprietor in accordance with a childcare standard report notice.

Childcare services—enforcement Part 20.5 Note to pt 20.5 Other enforcement provisions apply to this chapter (see ch 23).