Singapore legislation

Regulation 33

of Early Childhood Development Centres Regulations 2018

Regulation 33

Behaviour and guidance

Subregulation 1

A licensee must ensure that none of the licensee’s staff or education service providers commits any of the following acts on any child attending at the licensee’s centre or subjects such child to any of the following behaviour, as the case may be:

(a)

sexual exploitation or abuse;

(b)

corporal punishment, including —

(i)

striking the child, directly or with any physical object;

(ii)

shaking, shoving, spanking or any other form of aggressive contact; and

(iii)

requiring or forcing the child to repeat physical movements on the pretext of disciplining the child;

(c)

giving the child harsh, humiliating, belittling or degrading response of any kind, whether it is a verbal, emotional or physical response;

(d)

neglecting the child, and deliberate absence of response;

(e)

depriving the child of any meal or other basic need;

(f)

isolation of the child unless the child is being supervised by a member of the licensee’s staff who is within sight of the child, or physical restriction of any of the child’s movements;

(g)

putting the child at risk of being scalded or burnt;

(h)

causing psychological trauma to the child;

(i)

force feeding the child;

(j)

exposing the child to undesirable content, including pornography.

Subregulation 2

For the purposes of paragraph (1), a licensee must —

(a)

issue a set of rules regulating the conduct of the licensee’s staff;

(b)

ensure that all members of the licensee’s staff are aware of such rules; and

(c)

take measures to enforce such rules.

Subregulation 3

A licensee, a member of a licensee’s staff or an education service provider engaged by a licensee must not commit any of the acts mentioned in paragraph (1) on a child attending at the licensee’s centre or subject such child to any behaviour mentioned in that paragraph.

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