Little Petal
Online Support Team
About Us
Little Petal utilises multi-disciplinary approaches to provide holistic support services to children and their families within the home environment and in community.
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Implementation
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Our in-home child care service delivers a range of practical, emotional, and social supports to the children entrusted in our care. This includes supporting caregivers to build upon and improve their parenting capacity and relationships with their child by role modeling secure attachment principles and implementing Circle of Security strategies within the home.
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The Little Petal team is a collective of qualified and skilled individuals that have undertaken the necessary screening processes to determine their eligibility to work safely with children. A Little Petal Educator also possesses the following skills and resources to effectively carry out their role and responsibilities:
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Current first aid skills, access to resources to administer basic first aid, and a mobile worker safety app that can be used to activate alerts and emergency services attendance in the case of any emergency.
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Current licence, satisfactory driving record, and comprehensively insured vehicle.
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Skills and knowledge to fulfill their duty of care obligations under national law to protect children from any risk of harm, abuse, and neglect and to always maintain a child’s safety and well-being as main priority.
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Child development resources to support children with their developmental needs.
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Ability to work alongside allied health professionals and implement their professional recommendations with the children enrolled with Little Petal.
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Prior to in-home child care service delivery, a social work assessment is conducted with the family at the residence of where the care will take place. The enrolment process and documents are completed including, medical action plans for each child in the home if required. The initial home safety risk assessment is also completed at this time to ensure that the home environment is free from risks and hazards that prevents the Educator from successfully and safely supporting the family.
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Little Petal is a service provider approved by the Education Standards Board of South Australia and is accountable to upholding the National Quality Framework standards for children’s education and care.
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Important
Highlights
Security of your personal information
(a) Little Petal CC is committed to ensuring that the information you provide to us is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure information and protect it from misuse, interference, loss and unauthorised access, modification and disclosure.
Access to your personal information
(a) You may request details of personal information that we hold about you in accordance with the provisions of the Privacy Act 1988. A small administrative fee may be payable for the provision of information. If you would like a copy of the information, which we hold about you or believe that any information we hold on you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, please email us at admin@little-petal.com.
(b) We reserve the right to refuse to provide you with information that we hold about you, in certain circumstances set out in the Privacy Act.
Use of your personal information
(a) Little Petal CC will use personal information collected from you to provide you with information, updates and our services. We will use your personal information to improve our services and better understand your needs.
(b) Little Petal CC may contact you by a variety of measures including, but not limited to telephone, email, SMS or mail.