Is there an exemption policy for Transition Statements?
All services with a funded four-year-old kindergarten program are required to provide a Transition Statement for all children starting Prep the following year. At times, services may encounter the following circumstance with respect to staffing that may impinge on completing Transition Statements: • Recent resignation of a qualified staff member. • Qualified staff member away on leave (sick, maternity, etc). • Having difficulty recruiting to a position or multiple staff members in the role over a period of time. In the ‘context of the early years setting’ section of Part 2: the early childhood educator of the Transition Statement, the: • staffing circumstance should be noted • period of time the relief/temporary/new staff person has worked at the service specified, and that the • information contained in the Transition Statement has been prepared on the basis of existing records and observations recently made, highlighted. In the case of multiple staff members over a period of time (i.
