Written answers

Wednesday, 16 November 2016

Department of Children and Youth Affairs

Child Care Services Regulation

Photo of Anne RabbitteAnne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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261. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if it is a statutory requirement for child care providers to maintain a logging system noting hourly supervision rotas and the staff to child ratios that pertained on any given day. [35384/16]

Photo of Katherine ZapponeKatherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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The Child Care Act 1991 (Early Years Services) Regulations 2016 require registered service providers to ensure that there is at all times an adequate number of adults working directly with the children attending the pre-school service, and to apply the minimum ratio of adults to children as set out in Schedule 6 of the Regulations.

Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, has the statutory responsibility for enforcing the Regulations, and it is a matter for Tusla to determine the evidence it requires to determine whether the Regulations are being complied with.

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