Millars Well Outside School Hours Care

NQS ratings

Issued Apr 2026

• OverallMeeting NQS
• QA1 Educational program and practiceMeeting NQS
• QA2 Children's health and safetyMeeting NQS
• QA3 Physical environmentMeeting NQS
• QA4 Staffing arrangementsMeeting NQS
• QA5 Relationships with childrenMeeting NQS
• QA6 Collaborative partnershipsMeeting NQS
• QA7 Governance and leadershipMeeting NQS

Previous overall rating: Working Towards NQS (Jul 2024)

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): Yes
• Outside school hours care (before school): Yes
• Outside school hours care (vacation care): Yes
• Other: No

Hours

Approval conditions

From 30 August 2024, in addition to compliance with the prescribed educator to child ratio set out in regulation 369 of the Education and Care Service National Regulations 2012, the approved provider must ensure at least 1 additional educator is working directly with children at all times during after school care sessions. The approved provider must ensure that children are accompanied and directly supervised by a contact staff member as they move between approved indoor and outdoor spaces. From 30 July 2024, the approved provider must ensure that the nominated supervisor or responsible person of Millars Well Outside School Hours Care conducts an audit every 8 weeks (minimum 6 times per annum) to ensure that all staff employed by the service are following all of the service’s supervision and child safe environment policies and procedures. The approved provider must ensure that a written record of each audit is made immediately after it is conducted, including details such as the time and date of the audit, who conducted it, and the accompanying audit results. From 30 July 2024, the approved provider must ensure that the nominated supervisor or responsible person of Millars Well Outside School Hours Care conducts head counts of children being educated and cared for at the service are completed every 30 minutes and a written record made of each head count immediately after it is conducted, including details such as the time and date of the headcount and who conducted it. The approved provider must keep the written audit reports and head count records available for inspection at the approved premises by an authorised officer for twelve months after the making of each record. The approved provider must ensure that: a. All new staff who attend the service, including permanent, relief and agency staff, must complete a service induction which includes training about service specific supervision requirements and how to comply with the service approval conditions; and b. This induction must be completed prior to them commencing any shifts; and c. The nominated supervisor or responsible person ensures that a written record signed by the new staff member is made immediately after the induction has been completed and indicates on that record that the nominated supervisor or responsible person is satisfied that the new staff member fully understands the service’s policies and procedures. The approved provider must ensure that education and care is only provided from either the ‘conference room’ or from the 'wet area' whenever there is only one educator working directly with the children. The approved provider must ensure that only children who are currently enrolled in, and attend or will attend, a school in the current year attend the outside school hours care program. The approved provider must ensure that all children attending the outside school hours care program must be at least 4 years of age by 30 June in the year they attend the program. The approved provider is to ensure that at all times enrolled children over preschool age require access to and from the toilet facilities, they are accompanied and supervised by a contact staff member.