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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 14 Hansard (11 December) . . Page.. 5062 ..

7. MEDICAL RECORDS

(1) A licensee of a child care centre shall keep a medical history record and a medication record.

(2) If a child, while at a child care centre or otherwise under the care of a member of staff of the centre for whom care is provided at a child care centre:

(a) sustains injury; or

(b) is suffering from an illness;

the licensee shall enter in the medical history record the following particulars in relation to that child:

(a) his or her name;

(b) in the case of an injury - the date on which, the time at which, and the circumstances in which, the injury was sustained;

(c) the nature of the injury sustained or the symptoms of the illness being suffered, as the case requires;

(d) if the child is found to be suffering from an infectious disease or a notifiable disease - the name of the disease.

(3) Where medication is administered to a child at a child care centre the licensee shall enter in the medication record the following particulars in relation to that child:

(a) his or her name;

(b) the name and dosage of the medication;

(c) the date on which and the time at which the medication was administered;

(d) where the consent, in writing, of a parent to the administration of the medication has been obtained - that fact.

Penalty: S200.

8. EXCURSION BOOK

(1) A licensee of a child care centre shall keep an excursion book.

(2) Where a child is removed from a child care centre for the purpose of taking part in an activity organised by the licensee of that centre, the licensee shall enter in the excursion book the following particulars in relation to that child:

(a) his or her name;

(b) the date, time, place and nature of the activity;

(c) where the consent, in writing, of a parent to the child being removed from the premises for the purpose of taking part in the activity has been obtained - that fact.

Penalty: S200.

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