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Social Security Act 2018

Obligations - Beneficiaries’ obligations - Specific obligations: social obligations in relation to dependent children

132: Attendance of dependent child aged 5 or 6 years at early childhood education programme or registered school

You could also call this:

“School or early education required for 5 and 6-year-olds”

If you are responsible for a child who is 5 or 6 years old, you need to make sure they are either going to an early childhood education programme or a school. For early childhood education, you must enrol them in an approved programme and make sure they attend as much as the rules say they should. If they’re not in early childhood education, you need to enrol them in a school and make sure they go regularly.

You don’t have to do this if you are teaching your child at home and have permission not to work because of this. This permission might come from old rules that are still being used or from new rules that the government makes.

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Part 3 Obligations
Beneficiaries’ obligations: Specific obligations: social obligations in relation to dependent children

132Attendance of dependent child aged 5 or 6 years at early childhood education programme or registered school

  1. A person to whom this section applies (A) must take all reasonable steps to ensure that each dependent child aged 5 or 6 years either—

  2. is enrolled in an approved early childhood education programme (as defined in regulations made under section 430) and attends that programme in the manner and to the minimum extent prescribed by regulations made under section 430; or
    1. is enrolled at and regularly attends a registered school (as defined in regulations made under section 430).

      1. This section does not apply if A qualifies for an exemption from his or her work-test obligations on the active teaching out of school grounds specified by—

      2. regulation 6(2)(c) of the Social Security (Exemptions under Section 105) Regulations 1998 (as saved by clause 27 of Schedule 1); or
        1. any regulations made under section 431(1)(e).

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