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Child Care Regulations
Accreditation
Positive Guidance on Children's Behaviour
Meal Planning
Arriving & Departing From the Centre Each Day
Behaviour Management
Special Occasions
Excursions & Visitors
Health & Safety
Fees & Opening
Our Program
A Child’s Reflection on Entering Child Care
CHILD
CARE REGULATIONS
St Paul's Lutheran Child Care Centre is licensed by
the Department of Communities. All of the programs for children at the centre
comes under the Child Care regulations set by this department. For Example:-
* Child/Staff ratios and sizes of groups according to children’s ages.
* Amount of unencumbered space for each child.
* The information about children which must be held on file.
* The position which the centre is required to take in relation to children
with infectious diseases.
The Child Care regulations and our centre policy book are located in the
foyer.
Dept of Communities.
Brisbane North
Regional Office
543 Lutwyche
Road,
Lutwyche.
Phone- 3872 0611
ACCREDITATION
All centres in Australia
that offer Childcare Benefits are required to receive Accreditation by the
National Childcare Accreditation Council. It is a quality improvement process
that ensures that every child in an Australian Childcare has the best
possible care. Accreditation complements the licence,
and focuses on the quality of the relationships between children, staff and
parents.
The quality improvement and accreditation System is about childcare centres and parents creating an environment that
nurtures, stimulates and guides each child's development. Parents are
involved in this process by offering suggestions and completed surveys when
our centre is due to be reviewed. During this time we also have an
Accreditation Committee-which consists of staff, parents, committee members
and parents.
Our centre is an accredited centre and we comply and exceed the specified
standards that are required to be an accredited centre.
POSITIVE GUIDANCE OF CHILDREN’S BEHAVIOUR
AIM
Our goal is to assist children to be self-disciplined. We encourage children
to make decisions for themselves, therefore learning to take responsibility
for their behaviour and the consequences of their
own actions. This is matched with their capabilities.
a) Have a variety of activities for the
children.
b) Role model appropriate behaviour.
c) Group management techniques, limiting the number of children in each area
to avoid overcrowding and to allow for sufficient materials and the
opportunity for constructive interactions.
d) Speak to a child if their behaviour is
inappropriate.
e) Use positive language with the children to give praise for appropriate behaviour.
f) Have as little “NO’S” as possible, for example, “walk inside, if you run
you may hurt yourself” instead of “don’t run”.
g) After using the above techniques, if a child is having a problem
cooperating, he/she is asked to go to another area for awhile, explaining to
the child why they are being sent to another area and when they can return.
h) Use “logical consequences” technique, which is “if we take a long time to
clean up we have less time to play outside”.
i) Review environment and make changes as
necessary.
j) When inappropriate behaviour is still a problem,
the child is asked to sit in thinking chair, which is a time out place to
think about what he/she has done and with the help of carers
discuss with him/her what might be a better way to deal with the problem.
Thinking time lasts the appropriate time for the age of the child. Repeated
time out would indicate that a formal conference with the parent was in order
to inform the parent and to enlist their assistance in working with the
child.
k) If a child is having consistent difficulties or becoming distracting to
the entire group, he/she is asked to sit in another room (eg
Director’s office) so that he/she can think in a quieter room. Carers will then speak with the child about
problem-solving manners, rules, consequences and responsibility of their own
actions.
l) Children with consistent difficulties are taken through the above
procedures, and the parents are consulted regularly; outside assistance is
sought and the child could be dismissed from the centre. This is seriously
considered when the health, safety and welfare of this child, and/or that of
another child or the children of the group are at risk.
m) Discipline is reasonable for the circumstances, it must have due regard to
appropriate age and stage expectations and individual temperament, and will
be positive and supportive.
n) Does not include any form of hitting, corporal punishment, abusive
language, ridicule, and harsh or humiliating or frightening treatment, not be
associated with food (either forced or refusal). These methods are illegal
and are against our philosophy.
o) All treatment will be consistent as possible so the children know what is
expected of them. We ensure that children are always managed with respect and
the proper tone of voice is used at all times.
More information may be found here.
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