Child Care Centres Regulations - Singapore Statutes Online

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 —

“child care teacher” means a person who holds such child care qualifications as is acceptable to the Director, and who is employed by a licensee for the care and development of children older than 18 months but younger than 7 years of age enrolled in the licensee’s child care centre;

[S 677/2011 wef 03/01/2012]

“educarer” means a person who holds such child care qualifications as is acceptable to the Director, and who is employed by a licensee for the care and development of the following children enrolled in the licensee’s child care centre:

(a)	children aged 2 months or older but younger than 3 years of age, other than children referred to in paragraph (b); and
(b)	children enrolled in any of the Nursery 1 class conducted at the licensee’s child care centre; [S 677/2011 wef 03/01/2012]

“health officer” means any Health Officer appointed under section 4(1) of the Infectious Diseases Act (Cap. 137);

[S 677/2011 wef 03/01/2012]

“Kindergarten 1 class” means a class conducted at a child care centre for children attaining 5 years of age in the calendar year during which the class commences;

[S 677/2011 wef 03/01/2012]

“Kindergarten 2 class” means a class conducted at a child care centre for children attaining 6 years of age in the calendar year during which the class commences;

[S 677/2011 wef 03/01/2012]

“licensee” means the holder of a licence to operate a child care centre;

[S 677/2011 wef 03/01/2012]

“Nursery 1 class” means a class conducted at a child care centre for children attaining 3 years of age in the calendar year during which the class commences;

[S 677/2011 wef 03/01/2012]

“Nursery 2 class” means a class conducted at a child care centre for children attaining 4 years of age in the calendar year during which the class commences;

[S 677/2011 wef 03/01/2012]

“para-educarer” means a person who holds any of the child care qualifications set out in the Third Schedule, and who is employed by a licensee to assist —

(a)

any educarer also employed by the licensee in the care and development of the following children enrolled in the licensee’s child care centre:

(i)	children aged 18 months or older but younger than 3 years of age, other than children referred to in sub paragraph (ii); and
(ii)	children enrolled in any Nursery 1 class conducted at the licensee’s child care centre; and

(b)

any child care teacher also employed by the licensee in the care and development of children enrolled in any Nursery 2 class conducted at the licensee’s child care centre;

[S 677/2011 wef 03/01/2012]

“para-educator” means a person who holds any of the child care qualifications set out in the Fourth Schedule, and who is employed by a licensee to assist any child care teacher also employed by the licensee in the care and development of children enrolled in any Kindergarten 1 class or Kindergarten 2 class conducted at the licensee’s child care centre;

[S 677/2011 wef 03/01/2012]

“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 any employee of a child care centre who is a child care teacher, an educarer, a para-educarer or a para-educator;

[S 677/2011 wef 03/01/2012]

“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;

[Cap 174]

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

[S 677/2011 wef 03/01/2012]

Licensee must comply with Regulations

2A. Unless the context otherwise requires, it is the duty of the licensee of a child care centre to ensure that the provisions of these Regulations are complied with when providing child care services at that child care centre.

[S 677/2011 wef 03/01/2012]

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