Education Council Agrees to SA Jurisdiction-specific Amendments to National Regulations

The SA Education Standards Board have announced that the Education Council has agreed to amendments to the National Regulations for South Australia. The changes will enable new educators without an approved qualification working at a centre-based service to be counted as a certificate III qualified educator for the purposes of educator-to-child ratios for a three month probationary period. The changes will also allow a 1:11 educator to child ratio in all South Australian centre-based services for children over 36 months of up age, up to and including preschool age. A commencement date for these changes has yet to be announced.