143Requirements for former standard services

143 Requirements for former standard services

(1) This regulation applies to a children's service in respect of which a licence to operate a standard service was issued and in force immediately before the commencement day.

(2) For the purposes of section 109(1), (2), (3) and (4) of the Act, the prescribed minimum number and minimum qualification requirements of educators are—

(i) one educator to 4 children or fraction of that number of children; and

(ii) one educator who holds, or is actively working towards, at least an approved diploma level education and care qualification, to every 12 children or fraction of that number of children; and

(i) one educator to every 15 children or fraction of that number of children; and

(ii) one educator who holds, or is actively working towards, at least an approved diploma level education and care qualification, to every 30 children or fraction of that number of children.

(3) It is a prescribed qualification requirement that the educators, other than the educators referred to in subregulations (2)(a)(ii) and (2)(b)(ii), hold, or be actively working towards, at least an approved certificate III level education and care qualification.