Prosecution for approved provider and nominated supervisor as child is left in bus

A New South Wales early childhood education and care provider has recently been ordered to pay over $45,000 in penalties in relation to a February 2019 incident in which a two-year-old was left in a minibus for an extended period of time.

• failing to ensure adequate supervision;
• failure to take every reasonable precaution to protect a child from harm and hazard likely to cause injury;
• failure to take reasonable steps to ensure that nominated supervisors and staff members of the service complied with the required policies and procedures of the service (in that the Defendant did not provide a copy of the service’s policies and procedures to all staff when they commenced working at the service); 
• failure to provide training to all staff in relation to the service’s policies and procedures and any changes to them; and, 
• failure to  provide a formal induction to all staff or show certain staff where the service’s policies and procedures were located.