5.2 CARERS COMING TOGETHER
DATED: October
2002
SOURCED: Child Care Act 2002, Child Care
Regulation 2003
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POLICY
If a carer regularly
participates in providing care at a home or other place in company with one or
more other carers, they must advise the scheme in advance. Any provision of
care where carers come together must be in accordance with the limits of the
Child Care Regulation 2003 as set out.
PROCEDURES
a)
Travelling time is to be
disregarded in calculating the length of a period of care.
b)
Two carers may provide care at a place for no more
than three (3) hours in a day.
c)
Three or more carers may provide care at a place
for not more than three hours in a day, with not more than sixteen (16)
children. This care must not occur more than three (3) times in one week for
each child.
d)
If combined care with three or more carers is
provided in the presence of a
co-ordinator, or at an approved Playgroup, this care may occur
not more than three (3) times in one week for each child.
e)
An excursion/outing of over three (3) hours
involving combined care must not occur more than once in a week for each child.
f)
Any provision of combined care must meet all other
excursion/outing requirements
a)
If an Excursion/outing
is to last longer than three (3) hours the following adult/child ratios apply:
·
One adult per two
children under three (3) years.
·
One adult per four
children of at least three (3) years but who are not school children
·
One adult per eight (8)
school aged children
·
Carer’s
own children are counted in these numbers.