Regulations, in our context, are a set of guidelines written by the New Zealand Government for all early learning services to comply with and include practices from as part of their daily routines.
Early Childhood services regulations 2008 brings together and summarises the main legal requirements for early childhood education centres. These include:
- home-based
- centre-based
- hospital-based
- kindergartens
- specialty schools like Steiner/Waldorf and Montessori.
Service policies and procedures are legal agreements that the service has entered into with the Ministry of Education and must also be followed closely by educators.
Download the Early Childhood services regulations 2008 document and spend some time familiarising yourself with it. For now, we are going to focus on the regulations that relate to the health and safety of the children in our care.
Activity - Health and Safety regulations in ECE
We have listed the health and safety regulations within Early Childhood Services Regulations 2008 below.
Go through the document and ensure you read and understand each of them thoroughly. When you are ready, return here and complete the quiz. You are welcome to use the document as a resource to help.
Sections for Health and Safety Regulations:
- 44 Qualifications, ratios, and service-size standard: general
- 45 Premises and facilities standard: general
- 46 Health and safety practices standard: general
- 56 Ill-treatment of children
- 57 Health and safety of children
- 58 Collection of children from centres and home-based education and care services
Activity: Education Early Childhood Services Regulations 2008 Quiz
You may refer to the document, Education Early Childhood Services Regulations 2008, to help complete all the activities in this quiz. Use the arrows to progress through the eleven questions.
