Changes to NSW Legislative Requirements

Requirement
Under updates to Regulation 87(3)(e)(iii) in NSW, incident, injury, trauma and illness records must now also include the name and signature of the person who gave or attempted to give notice of the incident.

• OWNA has updated the child incident report for all customers 

• Ensure your app is up to date on the latest version.

• The rooms and times that each educator is allocated
• The Working with Children Check number for each educator.

• This information is stored under the Daily Room Snapshot 

• Ensure you have a Staff Document added for each educator member using the tag "WWCC"
• Ensure you are publishing Rosters to indicate which rooms educators are allocated to.
• Ensure staff use Room check-in to record movements within the service; this will trigger their addition to the Daily Room Snapshot.

Requirement
Services must have policies and procedures that cover (among other things): maintaining a register of child protection concerns.

• OWNA provides a Custom Form template available in the Template Marketplace that can be used to record child protection concerns.

• Upload your policy to Policies & Resources (Configure) and/or Staff Policies/Procedures (Staff).
• Create a Custom Form to record child protection concerns.