ECT's Working In An Early Childhood Setting

Hi Sue,

Yes, it depends on the number of children. This is some info I found....

By 1 January 2014 - Long day care and preschool services providing care to less than 25 children must have access to an early childhood teacher for at least 20 per cent of the time that the service provides education and care.
•When long day care and preschool services are provided to 25 or more children on any given day, the service must ensure that an early childhood teacher is in attendance for:
-- six hours on that day (for a service that operates for more than 50 hours per week) or
-- 60 percent of the operating hours (for a service that operates for 50+ hours per week).

A service may choose to comply with these requirements by engaging a full-time equivalent early childhood teacher.

Hope this helps
Rosie

Just adding to Rosie's response...

Check out page 92 in the National Regulations, it gives you all the details on having an ECT within a service, how many hours, how often etc.

Here is a link: http://www.eduweb.vic.gov.au/edulibrary/public/earlychildhood/nqf/edcareservices.pdf

Hope this helps,

,
L.A