Bright Minds Family Day Care Scheme

NQS ratings

Issued Mar 2025

• OverallWorking Towards NQS
• QA1 Educational program and practiceWorking Towards NQS
• QA2 Children's health and safetyWorking Towards NQS
• QA3 Physical environmentWorking Towards NQS
• QA4 Staffing arrangementsMeeting NQS
• QA5 Relationships with childrenWorking Towards NQS
• QA6 Collaborative partnershipsWorking Towards NQS
• QA7 Governance and leadershipWorking Towards NQS

Previous overall rating: Meeting NQS (Jul 2021)

Nature of care

• Long day care: No
• Preschool / kindergarten (part of a school): No
• Preschool / kindergarten (stand alone): No
• Outside school hours care (after school): No
• Outside school hours care (before school): No
• Outside school hours care (vacation care): No
• Other: Yes

Hours

Approval conditions

The maximum number of family day care educators that may be employed or engaged by the approved provider is 60. The approved provider must employ at least 1 full time family day care coordinator as prescribed in section 5 of the Education and Care Services National Law Act 2010 for every 15 family day care residences or venues providing education and care for children. The approved provider must notify the Department at least 14 days before they commence to operate in another state or territory. • The approved provider of a family day care education and care service must ensure that: • Family day care educators engaged by or registered with the service and approved family day care venues, that are located in an area or district of bushfire or at risk of grassfire, close and do not operate on any day declared by the Victorian Emergency Management Commissioner to be a day of ‘Catastrophic’ Fire Danger Rating that applies to the area or district at which the family day care educator’s residence or family day care venue is located. • The family day care service’s emergency and evacuation policies and procedures required under regulation 168 of the Education and Care Services National Regulations include an Emergency Management Plan for managing the services’ and family day care educators’ bushfire and grassfire related risks. • The family day care service’s Emergency Management Plan reflects the operating context of the family day care service and its family day care educators, is kept up to date, reviewed at least once each calendar year; and includes: o a list of the service’s emergency contact details o procedures for monitoring and managing bushfire risks and events o procedures for identifying and managing events that may cause planned, unplanned or pre-emptive closure of the service or family day care educators’ service o procedures for notifying families of children enrolled at the service of any closure o procedures for reviewing and updating the Emergency Management Plan. • The Emergency Management Plan is made available to the Regulatory Authority on request.