Child Care Centres Regulations

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6 Notification of change of particulars of licensee

7 Hours of operation

8 Programme statement

9 Daily programme schedule

10 Parent involvement

11 Immunisation and illness

12 First aid facilities

13 Medicines and drugs

15 Infectious diseases

17 Behaviour and guidance

18 Contents and maintenance of children’s records

19 Record of official inspections

20 Records to be kept and retention period

21 Reporting of child abuse

22 Report of legal action

23 Submitting of particulars of staff

24 Appointment of staff

25 Programme Staff-child ratio

26 Director may prohibit employment of certain staff

27 Child care centre to comply with specifications

29 Equipment and furnishings

30 Washing and sanitary facilities

31 Maintenance of child care centre

33 Prohibition on smoking

34 Kitchen facilities

36 Storing of inflammable substances and cleaning agents

37 Inspection by officers of Singapore Civil Defence Force

38 Fire precautionary measures

39 Emergency information

42 Submission of returns

Child Care Centres Act

(CHAPTER 37A, Section 19)

Child Care Centres Regulations

Rg 1

REVISED EDITION 1993

(25th March 1992)

[1st July 1988]

PART I

PRELIMINARY

Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Child Care Centres Regulations.

Definitions

2. In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —

“health officer” means any medical practitioner in the service of the Government;

“operator” means any person who operates a child care centre and includes the owner, financier and promoter;

“philosophy of care” means the central ideas upon which the child care programme will be developed and applied at the child care centre, including the goals of the centre as a whole, the objectives for each age group of children, the activities designed to promote the physical, intellectual, social and emotional development of children and the training of programme staff in childcare education;

“programme staff” means the supervisor, child care teachers and child care assistants;

“staff” means all employees of the child care centre;

“registered medical practitioner” means any person who is registered as a medical practitioner under the Medical Registration Act;

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“supervisor” means the person who plans and directs the programme of a child care centre and who is directly in charge of the children.

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