Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00106:clause:2_48a:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00106
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 2 cl 48A (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 127410–130191

48A  Additional conditions for continued approval for approved providers of in home care services
 (1) For section 195E of the Family Assistance Administration Act, this section sets out conditions for continued approval for a provider in respect of an IHC service.

Commitment to high quality child care
 (2) The provider must, in the opinion of the Secretary, be equipped to provide high quality child care at the service appropriate to the needs of families and the community having regard to the provider's ability and commitment to:
 (a) provide a tailored, individual education program based on each child's knowledge, ideas, culture, abilities and interests; and
 (b) develop a program that acknowledges and strengthens the cultural identity of children to whom care is provided; and
 (c) ensure children are adequately supervised at all times; and
 (d) ensure reasonable precautions are taken to protect children from harm or injury and any hazard likely to cause harm or injury; and
 (e) ensure that at least one IHC educator who is caring for children at residential premises holds a current first aid qualification; and
 (f) do anything else the Secretary considers necessary or appropriate for the provision of high quality child care.

Serious incidents
 (3) The provider must implement appropriate arrangements to manage serious incidents (see subsection (4)), including (without limitation) notifying the Secretary in writing within 24 hours after:
 (a) a serious incident occurs; or
 (b) a circumstance occurs that could have resulted in the occurrence of a serious incident.
 (4) The following incidents are serious incidents:
 (a) the death of a child while being cared for by the service or as a result of an incident that occurred while being cared for by the service;
 (b) any incident involving injury, harm, trauma to, or illness of, a child while being cared for by the service for which:
 (i) the attention of a medical practitioner was sought, or ought reasonably to have been sought; or
 (ii) the child attended, or ought reasonably to have attended, a hospital;
 (c) any incident for which the attendance of emergency services at premises where care is usually provided is sought, or ought reasonably to have been sought;
 (d) a child being cared for:
 (i) is missing; or
 (ii) appears to have been taken or removed from the premises where the service provides the care in a manner that would contravene the Education and Care Services National Regulations, regardless of whether the regulations apply; or
 (iii) is accidentally locked in or locked out of the premises where the care is being provided or any part of those premises;
 (e) any other incident that would be required to be reported to the Regulator under any applicable WHS laws (within the