Oak On Hume

NQS ratings

Issued Jun 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

Nature of care

• Long day care: Yes
• 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: No

Hours

Approval conditions

This service is approved to provide education and care to children from birth up to and including over preschool age, not including school children. The approved provider must ensure that the mirrors installed at the service are constantly maintained and operational. This is to ensure the facilitation of adequate supervision of children at all times they are being educated and cared for at the service, having regard to the need to maintain the rights and dignity of the children, as required under regulation 115 of the Education and Care Services National Regulations. As part of the requirement to conduct three (3) monthly emergency and evacuation procedures rehearsals in accordance with regulation 97(3) of the Education and Care Services National Regulations the approved provider must, from the date of commencement of the service, engage an appropriate expert in emergency procedures, a fire safety advisor or fire safety engineer to observe and report on one rehearsal (including mitigation of any traffic hazards, suitability of the assembly areas and any proposed actions to improve evacuation procedures) within the first three (3) months of the service’s operation, and then at least annually thereafter. A copy of the initial (within three (3) months) and the annual evacuation outcome report, including any recommendations for actioning, is to be supplied to the Regional Office of the Regulatory Authority in which the service is located within seven (7) days upon receipt of the report by the approved provider.