148Requirements for former short term Type 2 services

148 Requirements for former short term Type 2 services

(1) This regulation applies to a children's service in respect of which a licence to operate a short term Type 2 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—

(a) for children from birth to under 36 months of age, one educator to 5 children or fraction of that number of children; and

(b) for children aged 36 months of age or over, one educator for every 15 children or fraction of that number of children; and

(c) if the service educates or cares for 16 children or more, 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 educator referred to in subregulation (2)(c), hold, or be actively working towards, at least an approved certificate III level education and care qualification.