Education and care service

An education and care service is any service providing (or intending to provide) regular education and care to children under 13, not including:

• a school giving full-time education to children including the year before grade 1, but not including a preschool within a school, or a preschool registered as a school
• a preschool program delivered in a school, if it is delivered to fewer than 6 children and in a class where a full-time education program is also being delivered
• a personal arrangement
• a service that mainly provides instruction on a particular activity (e.g. sport, dance, music, culture, language or religious instruction)
• a service providing education and care to patients in a hospital or patients of a medical or therapeutic care service
• care provided under a child protection law of a participating jurisdiction
• a prescribed class of disability service
• a service of a prescribed class.