Wyndham Early Learning Family Day Care

NQS ratings

Issued Apr 2023

• 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: Significant Improvement Required (Dec 2022)

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: No

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 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.