A child suffered a serious illness while being educated and cared for by the service and the child attended, or should have attended, a hospital.

Section 174(2)(a) requires that QECNT is notified of any serious incident occurring at the approved education and care service.

Regulation 12 provides a list of circumstances that are defined as serious incidents under the National Law.

This list includes any incident involving serious illness of a child occurring while that child is being educated and cared for by an approved service and where the child attended, or should have attended, a hospital.

For example, severe asthma attack, seizure or anaphylaxis reaction.

For more information, see section 7.3 of ACECQA’s Guide to the National Quality Framework, Operational Requirements.