There is significant risk of critical injury to a child left unattended on a vehicle or bus. Services must implement safe transportation requirements and practices at all times to prevent serious incidents.

The department’s safe transportation of children attending early childhood education and care (ECEC) services regulatory guidance note provides guidance on regulatory requirements, compliant practices or behaviours for ECEC services and providers.

Additional resources to support your transport practice

The department has partnered with Kids and Traffic to develop resources to guide and assist NSW services in implementing best practice in the safe transportation of children.

Kids and Traffic is the NSW Early Childhood Road Safety Education Program. It forms part of the statewide road safety education program of Transport for NSW.

The resources will help you to:

• understand and comply with transport-related regulatory requirements under the NQF
• improve your service’s transport practices, in line with best practice guidelines
• improve your existing policies, procedures and risk assessments for transportation and excursions involving transport
• understand where to find additional information and support on transport and road safety.

Written resources

Access the resources below or on the Kids and Traffic’s website.

• Transporting children safely (PDF 4 MB)
• Sample safe transportation of children policy and procedures (PDF 3.7 MB)
• Sample safe transport checklist (PDF 332 KB)
• Transport safety risk assessment and management guide, including sample risk assessments (PDF 1.3 MB)
• Safe travel and transport (PDF 1.7 MB)
• Transportation authorisation template and sample (PDF 1.3 MB)