Your regulatory requirements
Child safety
Children's rights and best interests are paramount. Understand your obligations under the different areas of child safety, including the new reforms.
Excursions and transportation
You must ensure that excursions and transportation are compliant with the National Law and Regulations. Find out how.
Quality ratings
The Quality Rating certificate gives families important information about your service. Find resources to help guide your conversations with families.
Regulatory framework
Find out how the regulation of services is administered in accordance with the law, including information on staff ratios and adequate supervision.
Reporting obligations to other agencies
You have obligations to report child safety issues or child protection concerns to different agencies. Find out what they are.
Culturally relevant resources
Access culturally specific resources to help you with implementing the National Quality Framework into daily practice.
Compliance and monitoring
How the sector is monitored
The NSW Early Learning Commission monitors services' and providers' compliance with legislation and approval conditions. Find out how.
Displaying compliance and quality history
Services must display their compliance and quality history in their service by law, to provide greater transparency for families. See the requirements.
Enforcement actions taken against early childhood providers and educators, including prosecutions, cancellations and more.
The latest quarterly data showing compliance and enforcement actions, notifications and complaints submitted and quality ratings.
Providing a quality service
Emergency planning, management, response and recovery
Learn how to identify, plan, prepare, respond and recover from emergencies at your service
Outside school hours care services
Information and resources to support outside school hours care service providers.
Policy and procedure guidance
Policy and procedure guidelines to help early childhood education and care services and educators to ensure the safety, health and wellbeing of children.
Approvals to operate
Fees
Find about about the fees NSW early childhood education and care services must pay, and how to pay them.
Person with Management or Control (PMC)
Learn what your responsibilities are as an approved provider when adding a Person with Management or Control.
Roles and responsibilities
Information about the key positions in early childhood education and care services, when roles can be shared, and what your responsibilities are.
Steps to set up a new service
Our step-to-step guide to setting up a new early childhood education and care service.
Provider application process
Read our step-by-step guide to obtaining provider approval. Find application and notification forms for Mobile , Occasional care and Multifunctional Aboriginal Children's Services.