Current identified areas of support

Authorised officers are noting similar trends across services from March and April 2026:

The current trends in compliance and monitoring visits relate to services not meeting the below law and regulations:

• Regulation 95 Procedure for administration of medication
  • Services are encouraged to ensure that medication that is to be administered to a child is in its original container, bearing the original label with the name of the child whom the medication is to be administered, and before the expiry or use by date.
• Regulation 97 emergency and evacuation procedures
  • Services are encouraged to consider methods to ensure that emergency and evacuation procedures are documented and rehearsed no later than 3 months after the date of the last rehearsal.
• Regulation 102AAC Risk assessment for the purposes of safe arrival
  • Services are encouraged to ensure that, if they have children that travel between an education and care service and any other education and care service, that they have a safe arrival risk assessment in place.
  • The safe arrival risk assessment must include all required information under subregulation 102AAC (3) and be conducted at least once every 12 months or as soon as practicable after becoming aware of any circumstance that may affect the safe arrival of children.
• Regulation 103 Premises, furniture and equipment to be safe, clean and in good repair
  • Services are encouraged to ensure that the service premises and all equipment and furniture used in providing the education and care service are safe, clean and in good repair.
• Regulation 162 Health information to be kept on enrolment
  • QECNT has seen a rise in breaches around health information missing from children’s enrolment records.
  • Services are encouraged to review the requirements of this regulation, including the required information regarding children’s registered medical practitioner and any plans to be followed with respect to a specific healthcare need, medical condition or allergy.
• Regulation 174 time to notify certain circumstances to regulatory authority
  • It has become apparent that services are not reporting serious incidents within the required 24-hour time frame.
  • Services are encouraged to review the national decision tree to ensure reporting requirements relating to incidents and complaints are met in line with the regulation.
• Section 175H Offences relating to possession or control of personal devices
  • Services are encouraged to review the details of this section, including definitions of a ‘personal device’ as outlined in the law.
  • Services are encouraged to review their safe use of digital technologies policy to ensure that it includes information about the management of personal devices that have the ability to capture, store or transmit images.