Education and Care Services National Law (Queensland)
sec.164Offence relating to assistance to family day care educators
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sec.164 Offence relating to assistance to family day care educators
The approved provider of a family day care service must ensure that, at all times that a family day care educator is educating and caring for a child as part of the service, one of the following persons is available to provide support to the family day care educator— the approved provider, if the approved provider is an individual, or a person with management or control of the family day care service, in any other case; a nominated supervisor of the service; a person in day-to-day charge of the service. Penalty: $17 100, in the case of an individual. $86 100, in any other case. For the purposes of this section, the requirement to be available to provide support to a family day care educator includes being available to be contacted by telephone to provide advice and assistance to the family day care educator. s 164 amd 2017 No. 9 (Vic) s 37 ; 2022 No. 43 (Vic) s 65 ; 2025 No. 53 (Vic) s 26 (sec.164-ssec.1) The approved provider of a family day care service must ensure that, at all times that a family day care educator is educating and caring for a child as part of the service, one of the following persons is available to provide support to the family day care educator— the approved provider, if the approved provider is an individual, or a person with management or control of the family day care service, in any other case; a nominated supervisor of the service; a person in day-to-day charge of the service. Penalty: $17 100, in the case of an individual. $86 100, in any other case. (sec.164-ssec.2) For the purposes of this section, the requirement to be available to provide support to a family day care educator includes being available to be contacted by telephone to provide advice and assistance to the family day care educator.
- (a) the approved provider, if the approved provider is an individual, or a person with management or control of the family day care service, in any other case;
- (b) a nominated supervisor of the service;
- (c) a person in day-to-day charge of the service.