91Occasional care services—educator qualifications

91 Occasional care services—educator qualifications

(1) For the purposes of section 109(2) and (4) of the Act, educators educating and caring for children at an occasional care service must satisfy the following prescribed qualification requirements—

Reg. 91(1)(a) amended by S.R. No. 12/2024 reg. 26.

(a) at least 50 per cent of the educators who are required to meet the relevant educator to child ratios for the service must hold, or be actively working towards, at least an approved diploma level education and care qualification;

Reg. 91(1)(b) amended by S.R. No. 12/2024 reg. 26.

(b) all other educators who are required to meet the relevant educator to child ratios for the service must hold, or be actively working towards, at least an approved certificate III level education and care qualification.

(2) The qualification requirements in subregulation (1)(b) do not apply to an educator if the educator has been employed by an approved provider on a probationary basis for not more than 3 months, at one or more occasional care services operated by the approved provider.

(3) If Subdivision 4 of this Division requires an early childhood teacher to be in attendance at an occasional care service, that early childhood teacher, or a person taken to be an early childhood teacher under regulation 94(1), is to be counted as meeting the requirements of subregulation (1)(a).

Meaning of actively working towards*—*see regulation 8.