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Evidence Guide: CHCEDS301A - Comply with legislative, policy and industrial requirements in the education environment

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CHCEDS301A - Comply with legislative, policy and industrial requirements in the education environment

What evidence can you provide to prove your understanding of each of the following citeria?

Identify legislative and policy requirements

  1. Access current workplace information that covers the range of legislation and guidelines relevant to the job role
  2. Confirm with senior staff key requirements of relevant legislation
  3. Clarify and confirm understanding of legislation to ensure consistency of interpretation and application
  4. Clarify and confirm understanding of legislation integration to form a legislative framework in the education environment
  5. Obtain advice from supervisor when conflicting legislative directives are found
Access current workplace information that covers the range of legislation and guidelines relevant to the job role

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Confirm with senior staff key requirements of relevant legislation

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Clarify and confirm understanding of legislation to ensure consistency of interpretation and application

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Clarify and confirm understanding of legislation integration to form a legislative framework in the education environment

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Obtain advice from supervisor when conflicting legislative directives are found

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Comply with legislative and policy requirements

  1. Undertake work in accordance with requirements of legislation and organisation policies
  2. Report promptly, incidents of non compliance resulting from breaches of legislation
  3. Inform authorised persons or bodies of inadequacies in workplaceprocedures which may contribute to non compliance
  4. Review own conduct and seek feedback from others to confirm continuing compliance with legislation, policy and procedures
  5. Report changes to personal circumstances affecting compliance in a regulated education environment
Undertake work in accordance with requirements of legislation and organisation policies

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Report promptly, incidents of non compliance resulting from breaches of legislation

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Inform authorised persons or bodies of inadequacies in workplaceprocedures which may contribute to non compliance

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Review own conduct and seek feedback from others to confirm continuing compliance with legislation, policy and procedures

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Report changes to personal circumstances affecting compliance in a regulated education environment

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Identify and comply with industrial instruments relating to the job role

  1. Identify the industrial award relevant to the job role and identify key responsibilities
  2. Source and read any relevant certified agreements
  3. Clarify award conditions with appropriate personnel as required
Identify the industrial award relevant to the job role and identify key responsibilities

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Source and read any relevant certified agreements

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Clarify award conditions with appropriate personnel as required

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Instructions to Assessors

Evidence Guide

The evidence guide provides advice on assessment and must be read in conjunction with the Performance Criteria, Required Skills and Knowledge, the Range Statement and the Assessment Guidelines for this Training Package.

Critical aspects for assessment and evidence required to demonstrate this unit of competency:

The individual being assessed must provide evidence of specified essential knowledge as well as skills

This unit could be assessed either on the job or off the job through an appropriate workplace simulation for a range of age groups and a range of conditions over a number of assessment situations

Access and equity considerations:

All workers in community services should be aware of access, equity and human rights issues in relation to their own area of work

All workers should develop their ability to work in a culturally diverse environment

In recognition of particular issues facing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, workers should be aware of cultural, historical and current issues impacting on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

Assessors and trainers must take into account relevant access and equity issues, in particular relating to factors impacting on Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander clients and communities

Context of and specific resources for assessment:

This unit can be assessed independently, however holistic assessment practice with other community services units of competency is encouraged

Assessment requires access to a range of opportunities defined in the Range Statement, including:

appropriate workplace where assessment can take place

simulation of realistic workplace environment for assessment

relevant school/centre policy, protocols and procedures

Method of assessment:

In cases where the learner does not have the opportunity to cover all relevant aspects in the work environment, the remainder should be assessed through realistic simulations, projects, previous relevant experience or oral questioning on 'What if?' scenarios

Assessment of this unit of competence will usually include observation of processes and procedures, oral and/or written questioning on Essential knowledge and skills and consideration of required attitudes

Where performance is not directly observed and/or is required to be demonstrated over a 'period of time' and/or in a 'number of locations', any evidence should be authenticated by colleagues, supervisors, clients or other appropriate persons

Required Skills and Knowledge

This describes the essential skills and knowledge and their level required for this unit.

Essential knowledge:

The candidate must be able to demonstrate essential knowledge required to effectively do the task outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit, manage the task and manage contingencies in the context of the identified work role

These include:

Understand and adhere to own work role and responsibilities

Legislation relating to the education sector, the education support workers role and key requirements of each

Integration of legislation to form legislative framework for the education environment

Curriculum and curriculum framework

Organisations policies and procedures for responding to legislative issues

Duty of care responsibilities as applies to non teaching staff

Safe working practices

Potential hazards and risks for students resulting from breaches of relevant legislation or policy

Key requirements of Industrial awards

Relevant code/s of ethics

Equal employment opportunity and equity and diversity principles

Essential skills:

The candidate must be able to effectively do the task outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit, manage the task and manage contingencies in the context of the identified work role

These include the ability to:

Follow school/centre policies and procedures

Identify inappropriate conduct

Undertake basic research and evaluation of enabling legislation, awards, certified agreements, workplace policies and work procedures

Liaise with and report to relevant personnel

Respond to diversity, including gender and disability in compliance with legislation and policies

Apply environmental and occupational health and safety (OHS)

Undertake self assessment

Communicate with others involving exchanges of complex oral and written information

Apply the level of reading, writing, language and numeracy competence required to perform effectively in an education support role

Range Statement

The Range Statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Add any essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts.

Legislation and guidelines will be specific to the particular education environment and may relate to but are not limited to:

Public sector employment

Affirmative action

Education and/or training legislation

Codes of ethics/conduct

Child protection legislation

Student protection/safety policies

Employment law

Legislated standards

Information and records management standards

Organisations enabling legislation and regulations

Security, storage, handling and classification of documents

Financial management an accountability

Anti corruption legislation

Anti-discrimination

Professional standards

Employee relations

Duty of care

OHS

Criminal, contract and administrative laws

Education environment may include:

Government school (pre-primary, primary and secondary)

Private/non-government school (pre-primary, primary and secondary)

Education centre

Kindergarten

Special education centre

Community education centre

Conflicting legislative directives may include:

Apparent contradictions between statutes

Apparent conflict between statutes and policy requirements

A regulated education environment includes:

Schools and other education facilitates where potential employees are required to undergo background checks in compliance with legislation designed to protect students

Schools and other education facilities where the employment of teaching staff and the operation of the facility are regulated by government

Changes to personal circumstances that must be reported may include:

Any change to the individuals criminal history

- a persons criminal history changes if they are charged or convicted of a criminal offence, whether or not a conviction is recorded

Student temporarily or permanently residing with staff

Inadequacies in workplace procedures may include:

Insufficient financial/other controls

Records processes unable to be audited

Ambiguous guidelines

No guidelines or policies

Unnecessary complexities

Use of non current legislation

Inadequate employment procedures

Inadequate/sufficient training

Inaction where an employee's criminal history changes

Industrial instruments may include:

Awards

Certified agreements

Workplace agreements

Contracts of employment