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Part A: Identify the scope of legal and ethical compliance requirements

For part A of this assessment, you are required to research and analyse the scope of legal and ethical compliance requirements that are relevant to a team leader's role in a community sector organisation and write a report on your findings.

Your report must be at least 500 words, and address the following:

a)Information sources: Identify a range of current and authoritative information you could access that outlines the legal and ethical compliance requirements for the industry in which the organisation operates. Describe how each requirement relates to team leaders (i.e. how the requirements affect their role/s).

NOTE: As a guide, you may like to refer to the suggested resources below:

Relevant government websites
State and Commonwealth law websites
Relevant peak bodies
Relevant industry standards
Relevant registering bodies
State/Territory Worksafe authorities
Codes of Practice
Industry Codes of Conduct.

b)Legal and ethical compliance requirements: Research and detail the specific documents that are used to interpret the legal and ethical compliance requirements that relate to this industry/organisation. In your answer include the following:

Websites that the organisation accesses regarding legal and ethical compliance
Books, articles and publications that are consulted
Internal policies and procedures
Organisations/agencies/departments that provide resources, information and guidance
Any other information sources that are useful and relevant.

c)Stakeholders: Detail the relevant stakeholders that are consulted as part of researching and recording legal and ethical compliance requirements. In your answer include the following:

Who the stakeholders are
Why they are consulted
Issues that they raise
The process used to respond to these issues
How the information is shared with all levels of employees within the organisation.

d)Risks and consequences: Explain how the organisation identifies any risks and consequences of non-compliance (including security of client information) and when the organisation might need to seek specialist legal advice.

e)Impacts on operations: Identify two (2) legal and two (2) ethical compliance requirements based on the relevant industry standards that have an impact on the operations of the organisation.

g) Regulatory authority: Identify the relevant regulatory authority and describe the functions of the authority and how it impacts the organisation.

Part B: Develop two (2) policies and related procedures

For part B of this assessment, you will need to develop two (2) short policies and related procedures based on one (1) of the legal and ethical compliance requirements that you identified in part A.

At least one (1) policy and related procedures must relate to a legal compliance requirement and at least one (1) must relate to an ethical compliance requirement for a community sector organisation.

The policies and procedures should be written in a clear and easy to read format.

Each policy and related procedure must include:

a) Purpose: Briefly explain the purpose of the policy.

b)Scope: Identify who the policy relates to in the workplace.

c) Definitions (optional): Explain definitions that not all people reading the policy will understand, e.g. you may define ‘Code of Practice’ as ‘Best practice guidelines issued by Work Safe Victoria on areas such as manual handling, hazardous substances, plant and equipment’. If there is no need for definitions, you may leave this part out of the policy.

d) Legislative or ethical context: List the relevant legislation that underpins this policy and procedure, e.g. Occupational Health & Safety Act (Vic) 2004.

e) Principle: Explain how the organisation will be responsible for ensuring the policy and procedures are implemented.

f) Policy: Summary of what is meant to happen in the policy.

g) Procedure/s: Detail the relevant procedural steps relating to the policy and who is involved in each. As this is a short policy, there is no need to have more than five (5) steps as part of the procedure.

h) Responsibility: Detail who the policy owner is, e.g. CEO, Operations Manager.

i) Distribution: Detail who the policy and procedures will be distributed to and how they will be distributed.

j) Version Control: Include a version control section in your policy.

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Reflection on Team leader’s role in Community sector
Running Head:  Reflection on Team leader’s legal and ethical compliances in Community sector
Title: Reflection on Team leader’s legal and ethical compliances in community sector
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Date of submission: 19/04/2019
Authors Note
The current report is presented as part of the requirements to complete the course work.
Introduction
Early child hood care organizational team leaders has greater role to play as their role will decide the sustenance and the quality of these organizations. There are diverse ethical and legal compliances needed for the team leader of the organization in accordance with the prevailing regulations in Australia. The following part of the report presents discussion on these aspects in two parts. The first part is about the role of the team leader and the compliance requirements of the role in a community sector organization. The second part of the report is the about policies and procedures in legal and ethical compliances requirements of an organization selected in Early childhood care domain in Australia. The emphasis is provided on the latest regulations(Cummings et al.,2015) in force related to these aspects in Australia.
 PART A
· Sources
·  Informative sources: There are several online sources employed to retrieve information related to the Early Childhood care organizational leader’s role expectations. General quality of care expected as well specific emphasis on the legal and ethical compliance requirements are presented in detail in several online resources available. Following are the examples of the websites providing information related to these functionalities.
Example:
https://www.qccc.org.au/
https://necpa.net/
https://www.naeyc.org/
www.aeca.org.au/
Each of the above websites provided overview of the traits and the responsibilities needed both for the team leaders as well as other significant personnel of the organization at different hierarchies. Both the legal and ethical compliance requirements of the leaders of the early childhood care organizations are provided from these websites.
· Also there are informative sources like miscellaneous document libraries where extensive information can be obtained related to these compliance requirements. The following is an example of the information source related to this aspect.
https://louisehard.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/leadership-in-ecec.pdf
(Leadership in ECEC – Facing the challenges and opportunities)
· Ethical and legal compliance requirements
· Organizational websites like Early childhood Australia has list of code of ethics that are applicable for child hood professionals, where in the leaders can adopt the set of these directives in their every day functions. The following website details code of ethics of leaders from this direction.
http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/our-publications/eca-code-ethics/
Typical focus on recognizing the responsibility and accountability to the children, families and other associated bodies is included in this list.
· Legal compliance requirements of Early childhood care are contained in the regulations promoted by the organizational websites like National Quality Framework. The directives of these organization forms one of the foundations for the organizational compliance with the legal aspects.

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