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Early childhood management

Manages policy development and coordination for quality integrated education and care services for children from birth to 12 years. Includes regulation and monitoring of early childhood services and providing input into the national early childhood development reform agenda. Also includes planning and implementing kindergarten programs for children aged 3.5 to 4.5 years of age; and the provision of funding to Non-Government organisations.

Procedures

• ECM-PR-001: Compliance, Internal Review and Enforcement under the Child Care Act 2002 (Qld)

  Details the steps and decision-making processes for the Office of Early Childhood Education and Care to manage non-compliance under the Child Care Act 2002 (Qld) and Child Care Regulation 2003 (Qld).
  
  

• ECM-PR-002: Pre-Prep in State Schools in Identified Indigenous Communities

  Outlines the provision of state school pre-Prep programs for Indigenous children aged 3.5 to 4.5 being delivered in 35 identified Indigenous communities.
  
  

• ECM-PR-003: Reporting serious injury or death of a child in a child care service

  Details the steps to be taken by the Office of Early Childhood Education and Care to respond to reports from a licensee of the serious injury or death of a child while receiving care in a child care service.
  
  

• ECM-PR-004: Licensing home based child care services

  Details the steps and decision-making processes for the Office for Early Childhood Education and Care to determine licence applications to operate home based child care services in Queensland.
  
  

• ECM-PR-005: Determining rest periods for child care licences

  Outlines the procedures for Early Childhood Officers to determine appropriate circumstances in which rest periods should be applied to a licence, and to ensure consistency in the way that requests for rest periods are determined across the State.
  
  

• ECM-PR-006: Licensing centre based child care services

  Details the steps and decision-making processes for the Office of Early Childhood and Care to determine licence applications to operate centre based child care services in Queensland.
  
  

• ECM-PR-007: Power of entry and other powers under the Child Care Act 2002 (Qld)

  Details the procedure guidelines for the Office for Early Childhood Education and Care when exercising powers of entry and other powers under the Child Care Act 2002 (Qld).
  
  

• ECM-PR-008: Approval of qualifications under the Child Care Act 2002 (Qld)

  Details the steps and decision making processes of the Office for Early Childhood Education and Care to determine whether the qualifications of individuals seeking to work in child care, or institutions offering, or that have offered courses to qualify individuals to work in child care, meet the prescribed qualification for a position in a licensed child care service.
  
  

• ECM-PR-009: Prohibition notices under the Child Care Act 2002 (Qld)

  Details the steps take by the Office of Early Childhood Education and Care to issue a prohibition notice to a person.
  
  

• ECM-PR-010: Register of child care licences under the Child Care Act 2002 (Qld)

  Details the steps to be taken by the Early Childhood Officers to record information about licences for child care services and for applicants to apply for information about child care services.
  
  

• ECM-PR-011: Obtaining and exercising a warrant in respect of licensed and stand alone child care services.

  Details the procedure guidelines for the Office of Early Childhood Education and Care to seek and exercise a warrant to enter a place in respect of licensed and stand alone child care services.
  
  

• ECM-PR-012: Reporting a critical incident in respect of child care services

  Details the steps to be taken by the Office for Early Childhood Education and Care when reporting internally and managing critical incidents in respect of a child care service.
  
  

• ECM-PR-013: Fee waiver and refund under the Child Care Regulation 2003 (Qld)

  Details the steps and decision-making processes for the Department of Education and Training in exercising a fee waiver or fee refund under the Child Care Regulation 2003 (Qld).
  
  

• ECM-PR-015: Reporting harm or suspected harm in a child care service

  Details the steps to be taken by the Office for Early Childhood Education and Care to respond to reports from a licensee of harm or suspected harm of a child while receiving care in a child care service.
  
  

• ECM-PR-016: Leasing Facilities for Early Years Services

  Assist with the preparation of leases and leasing arrangements for Early Years Services proposed within Department of Education and Training owned buildings.
  
  

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