Question: Who decides if an early childhood education and care service is required to close?

Answer passage (source: Australia):
page_title: Early Childhood Education and Care COVID-19 Frequently Asked Questions
section_headers: COVID-19 health advice for providers and services
Who will inform our early childhood education and care service if it is required to close?
section_content: Closures are a decision that will be made, and advised, by state and territory
governments. Usually this is their health department, but it may come from the
state regulatory authority.
Services directed to shut down because of COVID-19 should follow standard
processes for activating a period of local
emergency.
If you close your early childhood education and care service, either
voluntarily or as directed by a state or territory regulatory or health
authority on public health advice or for other valid health and safety
reasons, you must notify your state regulatory authority within 24 hours.

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
This answer relates to the question as it states specifically who decides about the closure of certain services.
This is a direct answer to the question. The answer provides information on who make the decision to close early childhood education and care service and what actions should be taken afterwards.

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Answer passage (source: Australia):
page_title: Early Childhood Education and Care COVID-19 Frequently Asked Questions
section_headers: COVID-19 health advice for providers and services
Is it safe for my service to stay open?
section_content: Continuing essential services such as child care–while it is safe to do so–is
crucial to enabling parents, including health care professionals, to continue
to work and support the broader community during these uncertain times. It
also reduces the reliance on alternative care arrangements such as
grandparents or elderly relatives who are typically at higher risk of
COVID-19.
Early childhood education and care services should follow the advice from
their state or territory governments on matters related to COVID-19. Their
advice and directions are informed by the expert medical advice of Australia’s
Chief Medical Officer and the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee
(AHPPC).
The current clear advice of health officials is that services should continue
to remain open unless otherwise directed, with risk mitigation measures as
outlined in the AHPPC statement below.
Read the statement from the AHPPC about COVID-19 in children and early childhood education and
care.

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
This does not answer the question. This answer does not provide any information on who makes the decision for the early childhood education and care service to close. Instead, this answer provides information on why childcare service should be continued during Covid-19 and the current advice and directions for these services related to Covid-19.
While this answers the question in a convoluted way, it does not specifically address the question.

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Answer passage (source: Australia):
page_title: Early Childhood Education and Care COVID-19 Frequently Asked Questions
section_headers: Early Childhood Education and Care Relief Package–information for providers and services
Will I still receive payments if my service is directed to close due to COVID-19?
section_content: Services are still eligible to receive payments where a health agency or state
or territory regulatory authority has directed a provider to close a service
due to COVID-19 related reasons. The department may ask the provider for
evidence to support the service’s claim that it has been directed to close.
A provider cannot make the decision to close the service and still be eligible
for the payment.

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
This answer does not address the question of who is making the decision about child care service or education closure.
This answer is irrelevant to the question. It does not provide any information on who makes the decision to close an early childhood education and care service. Instead, the answer provides information on a service's eligibility to receive payments when it has been directed to close.

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