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Outside School Hours Care Services

outside school hours care services (also known as school age care services) provide care to school age children before and/or after school (during school terms) and may offer vacation care.

Outside school hours care services are centre based services, and are required to be licensed under the Child Care Act 2002 (the Act). A service must meet the legislative requirements under the Act, including:

• building and facilities
• staffing ratios (including qualification requirements)
• group sizes
• health, hygiene and safety.

The Queensland Government funds eligible school age care services to engage staff for additional hours per week. The funding enables co-ordinators to undertake tasks such as program preparation, training, networking, school and parent liaison and other administration duties.

Find an outside school hours care service.

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This page was last reviewed on 18 Jul 2011

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