Further COVID restrictions eased from today (15 December 2021)

Beginning today (Wednesday, 15 December 2021), the NSW Government has further eased COVID restrictions. For early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings, they are:

• facemasks are no longer required indoors for fully COVID vaccinated individuals above the age of 12 years old (see Clauses 6-7 of the latest NSW Public Health (COVID-19 General) Order (No 2) 2021); and
• QR code check-ins are no longer required (see Clause 10 of the latest NSW Public Health (COVID-19 General) Order (No 2) 2021).

Contact tracing will still be conducted should any ECEC service be affected by COVID. Under those circumstances, services' normal sign-in and sign-out records will be required by the NSW Government in electronic form.

Please also note that the requirement for mandatory full COVID vaccinations for all ECEC services' employees by 8 November 2021 has not changed (see NSW Public Health (COVID-19 Vaccination of Education and Care Workers) Order 2021).  

Should members of the Australian Childcare Alliance (ACA) NSW require any further information/clarification, please contact the ACA NSW team via 1300 556 330 or nsw@childcarealliance.org.au.

PUBLISHED: 15 DECEMBER 2021