Occasional care

Occasional care

1.1 Authority

1.2 Responsibilities of different levels of government

1.3 Availability of child care places

2.4 Occasional care

3.1 Types of assistance available

3.6 Operational support payments

3.9 Reporting obligations for all child care services receiving Community Support payments

3.10 Accessing Community Support payment forms

3.11 Inclusion and Professional Support Program

3.12 Inclusion Support Program

3.13 Professional Support Program

3.14 Bicultural support

3.15 Inclusion Support Subsidy

3.16 Flexible Support Funding

4.1 Legal responsibilities for operating a service

4.2 Business type and provision of documentation

4.3 Industrial awards and agreements

4.5 Goods and Services Tax

4.6 Attendance records

4.7 Who is responsible for ensuring attendance records are kept?

4.8 Absences from care

4.9 Information management

5.1 Compliance monitoring

5.4 Eligibility rules

5.5 Key obligations imposed on approved child care services under the family assistance law

5.9 Some other things you should know about the family assistance law and associated rules

6.1 Conduct of the service

6.2 Who can use a service?

6.5 What are my service’s responsibilities to parents?

6.6 What are my service’s responsibilities to children?

6.8 Handling complaints

6.9 Links with other services

6.10 Child Care Access Hotline

8.1 Overview for families

8.2 Overview for services

8.3 Who is eligible?

8.4 Summary of forms

9.1  Why is family income assessed for Child Care Benefit?

9.2  What does the Child Care Benefit income assessment include?

9.3  What to do when a family starts care at your service

9.4  Weekly statement

9.5  Resolving assessment issues

9.6  Reassessments

9.7  Notifying changes in circumstances 

10.1  Fee reduction families

10.2  Lump sum families

10.3  Changes to payment choice

10.4  Child care payments made by a third party

10.5  Rules about fees

11.2 Factors in the calculation of Child Care Benefit

11.3 Whether the weekly limit of hours is 24 or 50

12.1 Allowable absence days

12.2 Approved absence days

12.3 Payment of Child Care Benefit for allowable or approved absence days

12.4 Child care attendance record

12.5 Recording absence days

12.6 Supporting documentation for approved absence days

13.1 Circumstances where SCCB cannot be offered1

13.2 Criteria for SCCB for a child at risk

13.3 Documenting SCCB for a child at risk

13.4 Backdating SCCB for a child at risk

13.5 Criteria for SCCB for hardship

13.6 Documenting SCCB for hardship

13.7 Supporting documentation

13.8 Amount of SCCB payable

13.9 Limits on the period of SCCB that you can approve

13.10 18 per cent limit

13.11 24-hour and 50-hour limits

13.12 Suspension of power to approve SCCB for hardship

13.13 Granting SCCB for a child of a family receiving Jobs, Education and Training Child Care fee assistance

14.1 Changes to the Child Care Tax Rebate for 2008–09

14.2 Who is eligible?

14.3 Payment process to receive Child Care Tax Rebate

14.4 What does this mean for child care services?

14.5 What is the total fee?

14.6 Child Care Tax Rebate limits

15.1 Advances

15.2 Computer-based recording and submission of statements by e-lodgement disk/CD

15.3 Statement of child care usage

15.4 Recording child care information on the Statement of child care usage

15.5 Completing the Child Care Benefit statement for payment summary

15.6 Submitting Statement of child care usage forms with a Child Care Benefit statement for payment summary

15.7 Backdating a Statement of child care usage form with a Child Care Benefit statement for payment summary