Commonwealth family day care handbook
- Bib ID:
- 1096986
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Canberra : Commonwealth Dept. of Health and Family Services, c1996-1999
- 1 v. (loose-leaf) : forms ; 32 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0642203113
- Full contents:
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- 1. The Commonwealth Childcare Program
- 1.1. Aims and objectives
- 1.2. Family day care
- 1.3. Commonwealth and State responsibilities
- 1.4. Release of service information
- 2. General conditions of funding
- 2.1. Who can be funded?
- 2.2. Legal responsibilities of operating a service
- 2.3. Incorporation
- 2.4. Compliance with relevant industrial awards and agreements
- 2.5. Appropriate insurance
- 2.6. Who can use the scheme?
- 2.7. Provision of a quality service
- 2.8. Hours of operation
- 2.9. Non-profit status
- 2.10. Compliance with Childcare Assistance guidelines
- 2.11. Accountability requirements
- 2.12. Record keeping
- 2.13. Access by Program staff
- 2.14. Conduct of the service
- 3. Operating a service
- 3.1. Responsibilities of the approved operator
- 3.2. Management committees
- 3.3. Activities of management committees
- 3.4. Running committee meetings
- 3.5. Minutes of meetings
- 3.6. Parent, carer and staff participation in management
- 3.7. Responsibilities to carers
- 3.8. Responsibilities to parents
- 3.9. Responsibilities to children
- 3.10. Information needs of parents
- 3.11. Handling complaints
- 3.12. Links with other services
- 3.13. Fee schedule
- 4. Who can use a service?
- 4.1. A community service
- 4.2. Priority of access guidelines
- 4.3. Provision of care to near relatives
- 4.4. Provision of care for children of carers
- 5. 24-hour care
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Extension of 24-hour care
- 5.3. Childcare Assistance subsidies for 24-hour care
- 5.4. School children boarding away from home
- 6. Information management and confidentiality
- 7. Commonwealth funding of services
- 7.1. Summary of Commonwealth funding and support
- 7.2. Operational subsidies
- 7.3. Regional Travel Assistance Grants (RTAG)
- 7.4. Equipment grants
- 7.5. Establishment grants
- 7.6. Set-up grants
- 7.7. Suppplementary Services (SUPS)
- 7.8. Disabled Supplementary Services payments (D-SUPS)
- 7.9. Sales tax exemption
- 8. Childcare Assistance
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Eligibility for Childcare Assistance
- 8.3. Fees and Childcare Assistance
- 8.4. Special Childcare Assistance
- 8.5. Income and assets assessment
- 8.6. Calculating and recording Childcare Assistance
- 8.7. Claiming Childcare Assistance
- 9. Commonwealth Childcare Cash Rebate Scheme
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. Responsibilities of scheme and carers
- 9.3. How family day care services register
- 9.4. Receipts
- 9.5. Further information
- 10. Jobs, Education and Training (JET) Program
- 10.1. Introduction
- 10.2. Role of the Department of Health and Family Services
- 10.3 JET child care resources workers (JETCCRW)
- 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 block placements
- 10.8. When a JET client leaves care or moves into a permanent place
- 10.9. JET clients and special Childcare Assistance
- 10.10. JET SUPS assistance
- 10.11. Acquittal process
- 11. Employer sponsored family day care
- 11.1. Introduction
- 11.2. Models of employer sponsored family day care
- 11.3. Commonwealth funding
- 11.4. Fringe benefits tax
- 11.5. Negotiations between emplooyers and schemes
- 11.6. Management of employer sponsored family day care places
- 11.7. Accountability requirements
- 11.8. Employer contribution guidelines
- 12. Accountability requirements
- 12.1. Introduction
- 12.2. Funding conditions
- 12.3. Accountability documents
- 12.4. Accrual accounting
- 12.5. Accumulated surplus
- 12.6. Errors and breaches
- 12.7. Service assessments
- 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 (JET)
- 13.5. Resource and advisory agencies
- 13.6. Special services resource and advisory agencies
- Appendix A. Funding rates
- Appendix B. Request for extension of 24-hour care
- Appendix C. Suggested family day care fee schedule
- Appendix D. Operational profile form
- Appendix E. Forms relating to Childcare Assistances and D-SUPS
- Appendix F. Employer sponsored places form
- Appendix G. Suggested attendance record form
- Appendix H. Exception report
- Appendix I. Statistical local areas (SLAs) classifications
- Appendix J. Forms relating to RTAG
- Appendix K. Family day care - Childcare Assistance guidelines
- Appendix L. Childcare Assistance record of allowable absences
- Appendix M. Policy for the release of service information
- Appendix N. Assessment issue form.
- Notes:
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- "Commonwealth Childcare Program"--Cover.
- The Program will periodically update the handbook with additional or replacement sections or pages.
- Subject:
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- Commonwealth Childcare Assistance Scheme (Australia)
- Commonwealth Childcare Cash Rebate Scheme (Australia)
- JET Program (Australia)
- Family day care -- Australia -- Handbooks, manuals etc
- Federal aid to day care centers -- Australia -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
- Day care centres -- Australia -- Finance
- Federal aid to day care centres -- Australia
- Day care centres -- Australia -- Management
- Day care centres -- Australia -- Accounting
- Family day care
- Employer-supported day care
- Other authors/contributors:
- Also Titled:
- Family day care handbook
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- Publication date:
- 9999
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