Inner City Care has many policies and procedures that have been developed over many years by Parent Management Committee Directors, Centre Directors, educators and families.

Our Policies and Procedures are available to all parents on request and educators have access to a copy kept in the Centre Office.

The National Regulations provide a list of required policies, these will be made available to parents and visitors on our website.

The Required Policies are:

Quality Area 1) Educational Program and Practice:

• Programming Programming & Transition to School Policy

Quality Area 2) Children’s Health and Safety:

• Delivery and collection of children Admissions Policy and Arrival and Collection Policy
• Excursions Excursion
• Dealing with infectious disease Infectious Diseases Procedure
• Dealing with medical conditions Allergies and anaphalactic policy and Management of Unwell Children Policy
• Emergency and evacuation Evacuation Procedure
• Nutrition Nutrition, food and beverage Policy and Food Prep and Handling Procedure and Food Safety Plan
• Sun protection Sun Safety
• Water safety Water Safety
• Administration of first aid Applying First Aid Procedure
• Incident, injury, trauma and illness Administering Medication and Infectious Diseases Procedure and Infection Control Procedure
• Child-safe environment Chemical Risks Control Policy and Physical Risks Procedure

Quality Area 3) Physical Environment:

• Environment statement Environment Statement
• Environmental sustainability Sustainability Strategy Policy
• The indoor and outdoor environment Indoor and Outdoor Policy

Quality Area 4) Staffing Arrangements:

• Supervision Supervision Policy
• Harassment free workplace Staff Grievance Policy and Harassment Policy
• participation of volunteers and students 

Quality Area 5) Relationships with children:

• Interactions with children Behaviour Guidance Policy and Behaviour Management Procedure

Quality Area 6) Collaborative partnerships with families and communities:

• Family participation and communication Communication

Quality Area 7) Leadership and Service Management:

• Governance and management of the service, including confidentiality of records Confidentiality and Privacy Policy
• Enrolment Waitlist Policy
• Priority of access Admissions Policy
• Payment of fees Fee Policy 2012
• Dealing with complaints Complaints Policy
• Risk management procedures Risk Management Procedure

These are some of our main policies  and procedures but we have many more about a range of issues and topics we are happy to distribute upon request.