Importance of Practicing High Standards of Food Safety in Childcare

This article covers various aspects of food safety in childcare, including compliance requirements, individual dietary needs, and promoting healthy eating habits in children. It also explains the procedures to follow if hygiene requirements are not met.

CHCECE004
2.2
List 5 factors you may need to consider when addressing individual needs.
The five factors are mentioned below:
 Requirement of health
 Gender
 Age
 Medications
 DNA
3.1a
How are food safety and compliance requirements and responsibilities communicated in
organisations?
This is done through NQS quality which provides a complete detail of all standards
related to the food safety. Under this evey company is being rated on the basis of food
quality.
3.1b
Where would the copies of the Food Standards and hygiene requirements kept in a workplace
be located?
This should be kept on such place that can be easily accessbile by any employee of
workplace along with a proper training to each employee with the information of hygenie and
food standards.
3.1c
What practices might lead to food contamination in a workplace?
 Improper food storage or preparation
 Contamination by pests, insects, flies or any other flying insect

 Improper sanitized or cleaned area
3.2
Provide a brief explanation of the significance of practising high standards of food safety
during the handling and preparation of food for young children.
This covers a safety from all areas which are somehow related with the food
preparation or serving like mitigating the risk of choking, allergic reaction, etc.
3.3
Explain the procedures you should follow if you identify processes or practices that do not
meet legislative hygiene requirements.
The procedure is mentioned below:
 Knowing the food safety responsibilities
 Reporting the imporper practices of an organisation
 Determining the hygeine hazards
 Considering relevant actions to mitigate those hazards
 Reporting hygeine hazards
4.1/4.2
Where can you access copies of the National Quality Framework (NQF), National Quality
Standard (NQS) and the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF)? Where can more advice,
support and information about the NQS, NQF and EYLF be found? When navigating the
EYLF what are the five outcomes that you will find information about?
This can be accessed through Australian Childern's Education and Care Quality
Authority. The outcomes fro EYLF are mentioned below:
 Sence of identity
 Contribution to the world
 Sence of Wellbing
 Confidence

 Proper communication
4.3
Describe The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
This is a legal international agreement regardless of religion, ability and race. It says
that a person is having childhood age till the age of 18 years and should be kept seperate with
adulthood.
4.4
Research what a code of ethics is and describe its importance in a child care setting.
The code of ethics is a particular framework that provides reflection in relation to the
ethical responsibilities in concerned with childhood and provides a guidance on professional
behaviour.
4.5
Describe typical food allergies and allergic reactions including anaphylaxis.
The food allergies and its reactions are mentioned below:
 Breathing difficulty
 Tongue swelling
 Tighteness in throat
4.6
Why is it Important to address individual dietary needs and preferences with particular
reference to specific to cultural, religious or health requirements?
This is important so that an individual dietary needs because this mentiones about the
child's culture, and a requirement of providing dispensible foods to them. A diet to an
individual must be provided by keeping its helath in mind so that can provide appropriate
meal.
PERFORMANCE TASKS

T1
Promote healthy eating by children through:
The healthy eating in children could be promoted by providing them nutritional foods
with such a creative presentability that they can be attracted towards the food. This can also
be done by encouraging them to eat more of healthy food through surving them in designer
plats of their favourite cartoon, etc. Now a days children also helps their parents in cooking
so they can be asked to participate in food preparation through support.
T2A
Plan and provide food and drink for children on at least three occasions that includes:
The plan for food & drinks in respect to children could be done either by reading the
description related to the product while making a purchase. A chef can prepare food by
understanding the requirement of food and other essentials during the food preparation for
children. Lastly, a food can also be prepared for childrens by developing an interaction
among children and a influencer or with their role models so that can be encourged to eat
healthy food.
T2B
Develop a written menu detailing the food that is provided to children
The food that is being provided to children are mentioned below:
 Healthy fresh fruit juices or shakes with proper amount of nutrition in it.
 Any fruit like baanana and milk in morning so that it can maintain proper calories in
children.
 A proper balanced diet that involves bread, vegetavle or spices with rice.
 Vegetable or Non-vegetable soups to children.
 Yogurt or cereals in evening,
T3
Follow food safety procedures through:

The food safety procedures can be foloed by applying and working upon the
guidelines by keeping in mind the authorized policies of NQF, NQS and EYLF. The
procedure also includes a proper planning and handling of food items from which the food is
being prepared, maintaining proper healthy conditions as well as storing it with hygeine and
in good temperature also leads to the safety of food. The food satefy procedure can be
followed by maintaining proper cleaning of the place at which the food is being prepraed,
keeping the foods seperately of different nature this is perishable and non perishable items,
proper cooking of food or water until the germs gets killed from it and lastly chilling of food
at required temperature and for sufficient time period.