Family day care handbook / Department of Family and Community Services, Commonwealth Child Care Program
- Bib ID:
- 1982877
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Canberra : Commonwealth Dept. of Family and Community Services, c2000-
- 1 v. (loose-leaf) : forms ; 32 cm. + 1 sheet.
- ISBN:
- 0642444528
- Invalid ISBN:
- 064244528
- Full contents:
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- 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).
- Notes:
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- Sheet entitled Child Care Benefit ready reckoner in pocket inside front cover of folder..
- Previous ed.: Commonwealth family day care handbook. Canberra : Dept. of Health and Family Services, 1996-1999.
- "The Program will periodically provide you with inserts that will update this handbook"-- P. i.
- Former Title:
- Commonwealth family day care handbook
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- Also Titled:
- Commonwealth family day care handbook
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- Commonwealth of Australia 2000.
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