321Qualification requirements for educators—children over preschool age

321 Qualification requirements for educators—children over preschool age

321 Qualification requirements for educators—children over preschool age

(1) For the purposes of regulation 126(2), the qualification requirements for educators at a centre-based service educating and caring for children over preschool age are as follows—

(a) the first of every 2 educators required to meet the educator to child ratio for children over preschool age must be a qualified educator; and

(b) at least 1 of the qualified educators at the service must be a first qualified educator.

(2) In this regulation—

first qualified educator means an educator who holds a qualification that is published under regulation 137(2) in the list of approved qualifications for first qualified educators working with children over preschool age for South Australia;

qualified educator means an educator who—

(a) is a first qualified educator; or

(b) holds a qualification that is published under regulation 137(2) in the list of approved qualifications for second and subsequent qualified educators working with children over preschool age for South Australia.