Quality education and care shapes your child’s future and provides the groundwork for development and learning. Oz Education Early Learning Centres maintain high-quality standards and compliance and continuous improvement plans to create better health, education and employment outcomes for children in our care. It enables our young learners to develop self-esteem, resilience, healthy growth and capacity to learn.
National Quality Standards
Our centres comply to the National Quality Framework (NQF) that sets a national standard to ensure children receive quality education and care across Australia, with some varied provisions as applicable to the needs of each state or territory. View the legislation that applies in to where our Early Learning Centres operate, and if applicable, the corresponding Application Act below:
Guide to the National and Quality Framework
The National Quality Framework (NQF) provides a national approach to regulation, assessment and quality improvement for early childhood education and care and outside school hours care services across Australia.
Children (Education and Care Services National Law Application) Act 2010 No 104
The National law sets a national standard for children’s education and care across Australia and explain the powers and functions of the state and territory regulatory authorities and ACECQA.
Education and Care Services National Regulations (2011 SI 653)
The Education and Care Services National Regulations (National Regulations) support the National Law by providing detail on a range of operational requirements for an education and care service including the legal obligations of approved providers, nominated supervisors, and educators.
National Quality Standard
The National Quality Standard (NQS) sets a high national benchmark for early childhood education and care and outside school hours care services in Australia.
Victoria Child Safe Standards
Our early learning centres in Victoria are committed to the safety and well-being of all children and young people. We understand our responsibilities and statutory duty of care to comply with both the Victorian Child Safe Standards and the Reportable Conduct Scheme to build our capacity as an organisation to prevent and respond to allegations of child abuse.
Dallas ELC is committed to implementing and abiding by our Child Safety and Wellbeing Policy based on Child Safe Standards in Victoria (2022), which accentuates our zero tolerance for child abuse and raising awareness about the importance of child safety in our Service and the community.
We are dedicated to protecting children from abuse and neglect and promote a child safe environment, maintaining children’s wellbeing. We adhere to our comprehensive Child Protection Policy, standing by our mandatory reporting responsibilities to protect children from physical, sexual, emotional and psychological abuse and neglect.
We work to ensure there is clear awareness between appropriate and inappropriate behaviour concerning adults and children. We require clear precincts between children and employees, volunteers and the community to maintain children’s safety.
We are dedicated to promoting cultural safety for Aboriginal children, cultural safety for children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds, and to providing a safe environment for children with a disability.
We value diversity and do not tolerate any discriminatory practices.
We are committed to ongoing professional development for employees to maintain their ability to distinguish and respond to situations of abuse and neglect, ensuring employees are responsive to their responsibilities in keeping children safe.
We work in collaboration with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and have confidence in educating children about their right to be safe. We believe in teaching children what to do if they feel unsafe and encouraging them to express their view and thoughts on matters that directly affect them.
As educators we listen to and empower children to act on any concerns, they or others may raise which is reflective in our policies and procedures in keeping children safe.
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