Australia: start with the centre’s activities
The Food Standards Code provides the national food-safety framework. Standard 3.3.1 addresses food service to vulnerable people, including relevant childcare settings. Applicability, local implementation and exemptions matter. Ask your food regulator to confirm the centre’s classification, program, supervision, training, audit and record requirements.
New South Wales
NSW Food Authority has a children’s-services guide. It states that NSW children’s services are exempt from Standard 3.3.1. Confirm the applicable requirements, including Standard 3.2.2A where relevant, with the Authority or council; do not copy another state’s program assumptions.
Victoria
Use Safe Food Victoria’s food-business classification guidance and confirm the service’s classification and obligations with the registering authority. Record the confirmed program, supervision and audit requirements in the site’s plan.
Queensland
Start with Queensland Health’s food-safety information. Confirm licensing and food-safety-program requirements for the centre’s actual activities with the relevant local government.
South Australia
Read SA Health’s guidance for food service to vulnerable persons. Confirm applicability, program and audit arrangements with the relevant food regulator. Keep food-business notification details with the centre’s records.
Western Australia
WA Health provides food-business guidance. Confirm the centre’s registration, food-safety-program, supervisor and verification requirements with its enforcement agency, commonly the local government.
Tasmania
Tasmania’s Department of Health hosts a 2012 education-and-care food-safety manual. Treat it as background reading and ask the council environmental health officer or Department for current requirements before adopting its procedures. Its age is not evidence of current approval.
Tasmanian Department of Health: education and care manual (2012; confirm currency)
Australian Capital Territory
Use the ACT Government food-safety-for-businesses guidance. Confirm registration, food safety supervision, training and any program obligations for the service with the ACT food regulator.
Northern Territory
Start with the NT Government’s food-safety and regulations guidance. Confirm registration and the relevant program, training and supervision requirements with Environmental Health.
Keep a local confirmation
Record who confirmed the requirements, the date, the source and the next review date. Recheck when the service, food preparation or rules change. This directory was checked on 9 September 2026; it is not a continuously monitored legal service.