CHCECE044

Application

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to facilitate legislative, regulatory and National Quality Framework compliance in an education and care service.

This unit applies to educators working in regulated children’s education and care services in Australia. They provide guidance to others and have responsibilities in relation to continuous improvement of services provided.

Unit mapping information

Supersedes and is not equivalent to CHCECE019 Facilitate compliance in an education and care service.

Licensing, legislative, regulatory or certification requirements

The skills in this unit must be applied in accordance with Commonwealth and State/Territory legislation, Australian standards and industry codes of practice.

No occupational licensing, certification or specific legislative requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

Foundation skills

Foundation skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit of competency.

Unit sector or competency field

Children’s Education and Care – Early Childhood Education and Care

Prerequisite, co-requisite or interdependent assessment of units

Not applicable

Assessment conditions

Skills must be demonstrated in a regulated children’s education and care service in Australia:

• interactions with children must be supervised by an approved early childhood educator.

Skills related to development of the plan may be demonstrated outside of the service, but the plan must be based on work in a regulated children’s education and care service in Australia.

Assessment must ensure access to:

• information technology for research and documentation
• existing policies and procedures of a regulated children’s education and care service
• Quality Improvement Plan template
• National Quality Framework:
  • National Law
  • National Regulations
  • National Quality Standard
  • the relevant approved learning framework
• educators for collaboration
• children in a regulated education and care service in Australia
• families/carers of the above children.

Assessors must satisfy the Standards for Registered Training Organisations’ requirements for assessors.