Education and Care Services National Regulations
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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.
Reg 321: Subst 2024 (144), reg 5.