Providing effective guidance and support for early childhood education and care services is a key objective of the department.

To ensure you have regulatory guidance at your fingertips, the department has released a suite of regulatory policies.

These policies aim to help education and care providers and services understand their responsibilities and how regulatory requirements are applied in the delivery of early childhood services.

The policies also provide important information on the role of the department as the Regulatory Authority for the NSW education and care sector and how our functions are guided by the requirements of the National Quality Framework.

The department is working on publishing further regulatory policies in the near future.

If you would like further information, please contact our Information and Enquiries team on 1800 619 113 during business hours, Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm or email ececd@det.nsw.edu.au.