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Hello Everyone,

According to the regulation ,a centre should have an access to ECT 20% of the time if service has a less than 25 children .Our service has 8 children every day with 2 staff members.Can someone please help me how to calculate 20% time.Is it less than quarterly we need to have an ECT every day ?how it's been divided.
Thanks

Hi Lorina ,

I am working in a ldc .we have a mixed age group (0 to 5 years ) 8 children a day .

Thanks

Like you mentioned in your post I found the above in the National Regulations:

130 Requirement for early childhood teacher—centre-based services—fewer than 25 approved places

(1) If the approved number of places for children preschool age or under at a centre-based service is fewer than 25, the service must have access to an early childhood teacher working with the service for at least 20 per cent of the time that the service provides education and care.

(2) To comply with subregulation (1), the early childhood teacher may be working with the service by means of information communication technology.

(3) For the purposes of this regulation the period that an early childhood teacher works with a centre-based service may be calculated on a quarterly basis.

I think it means that if you provide care for 50 hours during the week (10 hours each day if your centre is opened from 8am - 6pm), within a week the service must have access to an ECT for 10 hours during the week. In (3) it says that it can be calculated on a quarterly basis (every 3 months). So, working with 50 hours a week of care x 12 weeks (3 months), you need to have access to an ECT for 120 hours for those 3 months.

I hope this makes sense to you...

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Lorina

thanks Lorina.That would be great

we open from 8.30 to 5.00pm Monday to Friday .

Hi Lorina,

Thank you for letting me know.No problem .Happy to wait .

Regards,
Harshitha.

Hi Lorina,

Thank you so much for clarifying this.I really appreciate your time and effort in explaining this in detail .

Regards,
Harshitha.

Hi Lorina
Can I please ask what exactly would an offsite ECT's role play? Would it mainly be programming if they are not on site in a teaching role, just curious to see if this is an avenue that may suit us in the future.
Thank you Callie

MrsFort wrote:Hi Lorina
Can I please ask what exactly would an offsite ECT's role play? Would it mainly be programming if they are not on site in a teaching role, just curious to see if this is an avenue that may suit us in the future?
Thank you Callie

Hi Callie,

I will look into this for you to clarify, however, in my opinion, the offsite ECT would probably be an "advisor" to the educators working within the ECT room. In regards to programming, they can lead the program with the room educators by being in contact with them. The off-site ECT can go through documentation written by the educators (emailed), provide ideas on experiences to be followed up or extended upon, collaborate and plan with the educators in the room for teaching strategies and intentional teaching plans, support educators etc. So, I would assume that Off-site ECT will need to always be in contact (daily) with all the educators in the room and probably need to visit the centre often to work effectively with the team...

Hope this helps!

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Lorina

Thank you so much Lorina, this is very helpful