Kazalo:
  • 1. The Commonwealth Child Care Program
  • 1.2. Aims and objectives
  • 1.3. Family day care
  • 1.4. Commonwealth and State/ Territory responsibilities
  • 1.5. National standards for family day care
  • 1.6. Release of service information
  • 2. General conditions of funding
  • 2.1. Funding available
  • 2.2. Who can be funded?
  • 2.3. Legal responsibilities of operating a centre
  • 2.4. Incorporation
  • 2.5. Compliance with relevant industrial awards and agreements
  • 2.6. Insurance
  • 2.7. Conduct of the service
  • 2.8. Charging of fees
  • 2.9. Accountability requirements
  • 2.10. Access by Program staff
  • 2.11. Statistical information
  • 2.12. Provision of a quality service
  • 2.13. Hours of operation
  • 2.14. Non-profit status
  • 3. Operating a service
  • 3.1. Responsibilities of the approved operator
  • 3.2. Management committees
  • 3.3. Parent, carer and staff participation in management
  • 3.4. Responsibilities to carers
  • 3.5. Responsibilities to parents
  • 3.6. Responsibilities to children.
  • 3.7. Information needs of parents
  • 3.8. Handling complaints
  • 3.9. Links with other services
  • 4. Who can use a service?
  • 4.1. A community service
  • 4.2. Provision of care to near relatives
  • 4.3. Provision of care for children of carers
  • 4.4. Priority of access
  • 5. 24-hour care
  • 5.2. Childcare Benefit subsidies for 24-hour care
  • 5.3. School children boarding away from home
  • 5.4. Form for approval of 24-hour child care for up to 14 periods in a financial year
  • 5.5. Application for Child Care Benefit for 24-hour care beyond 14 periods in a year
  • 6. In-home care
  • 6.2. In-home care for ongoing care requirements
  • 6.3. In-home care for short-term emergency circumstances
  • 6.4. Recording of in-home care
  • 6.5. Child Care Benefit for in-home care
  • 7. Information management and confidentiality
  • 8. Commonwealth funding of services
  • 8.1. Summary of Commonwealth funding and support
  • 8.2. Operational subsidies
  • 8.3. Regional travel grants
  • 8.4. Equipment grants.
  • 8.5. Establishment grants
  • 8.6. Set-up grants
  • 8.7. Supplementary services
  • 8.8. Special Needs Subsidy Scheme
  • 8.9. Disabled Supplementary Service payments
  • 8.10. Goods and services tax
  • 9. Child Care Benefit
  • 9.2. Child Care Benefit overview for families
  • 9.3. Child Care Benefit overview for services
  • 9.4. Eligibility for Child Care Benefit
  • 9.5. Family income and assessment
  • 9.6. Administering Child Care Benefit
  • 9.7. Calculating Child Care Benefit fee reductions for a child
  • 9.8. Reconciliation (fee reduction families only)
  • 9.9. Child Care Benefit for absences from child care
  • 9.10. Special Child Care Benefit
  • 9.11. Reporting Child Care Benefit information
  • 9.12. Checklist for CCB
  • 10. Jobs, Education and Training Programme
  • 10.2. JET child care provision
  • 10.3 JET child care resource workers
  • 10.4. What to do if a JET family asks for child care
  • 10.5. Permanent places
  • 10.6. Temporary add-on places
  • 10.7. JET clients' eligibility for temporary care.
  • 10.8. Funding block placements
  • 10.9. When a JET child leaves care or moves into a permanent place
  • 10.10. JET clients and Special Child Care Benefit
  • 10.11. JET Supplementary Services and Special Needs Subsidy Scheme assistance
  • 10.12. Acquittal process
  • 11. Accountability requirements
  • 11.2. Funding conditions
  • 11.3. Accountability documents
  • 11.4. Accumulated surplus
  • 11.5. Errors and breaches
  • 11.6. Service assessments/ review visits
  • 12. Employer-sponsored care
  • 13. Useful contacts
  • 13.1. The Program
  • 13.2. National Family Day Care Council
  • 13.3. State and Territory government departments
  • 13.4. Jobs, Education and Training Programme
  • 13.5. Resource and advisory agencies
  • 13.6. Special services resource and advisory agencies
  • 13.7. Family Assistance Office
  • 13.8. Health Insurance Commission (Medicare)