Centre Policies and Procedures

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.

Please find our Covid-19 Policy and updated Covid-19 letter below:

• Covid-19 Policy – April 2020
• Covid-19 Letter – March 2022

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:

• Arrival and Collection Policy Arrival and Collection Policy
• Excursions Excursion Policy A&R
• Dealing with infectious disease  Infectious Diseases Policy and Procedure A&R and Infectious Diseases Procedure  A&R Infection Control Procedures A&R
• Applying First Aid Policy Applying First Aid Policy A&R
• Dealing with medical conditions  Medical Conditions A&R and Allergies and anaphylaxis policy Alergies and anaphalactic policy AR and Management of Unwell Children Policy Management of Unwell Children Policy A&R
• Emergency and evacuation: Evacuation Policy and Procedure AR and Lockdown Procedure Lockdown Procedure and Duress Procedure Duress Alarm Procedure
• Nutrition: Nutrition, food and beverage Policy Nutrition, food and beverage Policy AR and Food Prep and Handling Procedure and Food Safety Plan
• Rest and Sleep Rest sleep A&R
• Sun protection Sun Safety and Clothing A&R
• Water safety Water Safety AR  
• Administration of first aid Applying First Aid Policy and Procedure AR
• Incident, injury, trauma and illness and Administering Medication Administering Medication ICC AR and Infectious Diseases Procedure  Infectious Diseases Policy and Procedure A&R and Infection Control Procedure Infection Control Procedures A&R
• Child-safe environment Cleaning and Maintaining the Environment Policy AR Chemical Risks Control Policy Chemical Risks Control Policy A&R and Physical Risks Procedure Risk Management Procedure A&R

Quality Area 3) Physical Environment:

• Environment statement Environment Statement
• Environmental sustainability Sustainability Strategy Policy
• The indoor and outdoor environment Cleaning and Maintaining the Environment Policy AR

Quality Area 4) Staffing Arrangements:

• Supervision Supervision Policy
• Harassment free workplace: Staff Grievance Policy and Harassment Policy
• Tips for casuals, students and volunteers TIPS FOR STUDENTS AND VOLUNTEERS Participation of volunteers and students Students and Volunteers
• Code of conduct for Educators Code of Conduct updated

Quality Area 5) Relationships with children:

• Interactions with children  Interactions with Children Policy AR and  Behaviour Guidance Policy Behaviour Guidance Policy AR 

Quality Area 6) Collaborative partnerships with families and communities:

• Educator code of conduct Educator Code of Conduct A&R

Quality Area 7) Leadership and Service Management:

• Governance and management of the service Governance and Management A&R including confidentiality of records Confidentiality and Privacy Policy Confidentiality and Privacy A&R
• Enrolment Enrolment and Orientation Policy AR and Authorisations Authorisations Policy A&R and Waitlist Policy
• Educational Leader Responsibilities Educational Leader Role and Responsibilities
• Responsible Person in Charge Responsible Person Policy A&R
• Payment of fees Fee Policy 2018
• Dealing with complaints Complaints Policy Complaints Policy
• Required information on display Required Information on Display
• Risk management procedures Risk Management Procedure A&R 

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.