Who nominates an authorised supervisor?
A. The licensee for a children’s service, other than a home based service, must nominate a person as the proposed supervisor for the service, see clause 15(1)(a). A maximum of two people can be approved as authorised supervisors for a service at any one time. See section 208(4) of the Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1998. The Regulation requires the authorised supervisor for a children’s service to have the overall supervision of the provision of the service, that is, to be responsible for the day to day running of the service, see clause 56(a). However, if a service has two authorised supervisors, only one of them is to have overall responsibility for the service on any given day or at any given time. Refer to Clause 15 – Authorised supervisor and Clause 102 – Change of authorised supervisor.
