Annual Report 2002–03 Volume I
Outputs under Output Group 1.4
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- Centre-based long day care
- Greater Flexibility and Choice in Child Care
- Outside school hours care and vacation care
- Multifunctional services
- Other payments and services
- Key achievements included
Outputs under Output Group 1.4Child Care BenefitReduces the child care fees of eligible families using approved child care services or registered carers. Assistance provided is proportionally higher for lower-income families. Child care for eligible parents undergoing trainingThe Jobs, Education and Training Program (JET) helps people who receive certain Centrelink payments, including Parenting Payment, to improve their employment prospects by participating in study, work or job search activities. JET Child Care (JET CC), part of the broader JET program, can help with finding child care and may help with its cost. JET CC also provides flexible child care services to meet the needs of targeted, vulnerable groups. Support for child careCentre-based long day careProvides quality all day or part-time care for children predominantly of working families. Some centres provide care for limited numbers of primary school children before and after school, and during school holidays. Family Day CareA network of caregivers who provide care and developmental activities in their own homes for other people’s children. Flexible and innovative servicesFlexible child care can combine standard models of care with occasional care, mobile multi-purpose centres, on-farm care, in-home care and/or overnight care. It can meet the needs of families living in rural and regional areas where people have difficulty finding suitable child care. Greater Flexibility and Choice in Child CareThis Stronger Families and Communities Strategy element helps families find the right mix between their work, community and parenting roles. Measures include: in-home care encouraging private providers to set up child care centres in rural or regional areas extension of Family Day Care and Outside School Hours Care to other operators, including private providers quality assurance systems for Family Day Care and Outside School Hours Care. In-home careA child care service provided by an approved care worker in the child’s own home. In-home care is for families who do not have access to a standard child care service or an existing service cannot meet their needs. Outside school hours care and vacation careProvides care for primary school children before and/or after school and during vacation time. Some services provide care on ‘pupil free’ days during term, and some provide vacation care. Occasional care servicesProvide short periods of care for children under school age. Multifunctional servicesProvide services in rural, regional or isolated communities that do not have a large enough population to support individual services. Multifunctional Aboriginal children’s servicesProvide flexible child care services to meet the social and developmental needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. Registered careA form of care provided by a registered carer, for example individuals such as grandparents, relatives, friends, and nannies. Other payments and servicesDisadvantaged Area Subsidy: to eligible community-based long day care centres or outside school hour care services as recurrent grants to assist with general operational costs Private provider incentives for long day care centres: to establish child care centres in rural and regional communities where parents need below school aged care and no centre-based care exists Special Needs Subsidy Scheme: funds approved child care services so they can include children with high ongoing support needs into mainstream programs. This includes children with diagnosed disabilities, children undergoing continuing assessment for disabilities, or developmental delay, and refugee children who have been subject to torture and trauma. Special Services Program: funds agencies and sections of the child care industry that target specific groups of children with additional needs. These include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, Australian South Sea Islander children, children with disabilities, children of parents with disabilities, or children living in rural and remote locations. Supplementary Services Program: supports approved child care services that include children with additional needs in their programs. This includes children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and children with a disability. Performance summaryKey achievements included:productive collection of views and ideas from the child care sector on the redevelopment of the Child Care Support Broadband following a comprehensive consultation strategy I broad agreement at a two-day think tank on five areas most important to the status and standing of workers in the child care sector: government funding, pay and conditions, value of children and children’s services, professional development, and national workforce planning. The think tank brought together representatives from peak child care bodies, universities, training providers, unions and all levels of government. further development of the Outside School Hours Care Quality Assurance (OSHCQA ) system for implementation on 1 July 2003. The development was based on close partnership with the sector and reflects the values and diversity of outside school hours care in Australia. monitoring of trends in the child care industry and relevant research. FaCS was instrumental in bringing together a group of eminent early childhood experts and researchers to review recent research in early childhood development. helping more families to access quality affordable child care. From September quarter 2001 to September quarter 2002 the number of children using child care increased by 7 per cent from 709 000 to 759 000 (source: Centrelink Administrative data September 2002 quarter). providing families with more choices in the way they receive their family assistance payments. The ‘More Choice for Families’ measures mean that, in addition to the current payment choices for Child Care Benefit (CCB), families can now elect to: reduce their CCB for the remainder of the year to recover or reduce any overpayment accrued from a change in income estimates get the minimum rate of CCB as reduced fees and be assessed for any further CCB entitlement after the end of the income year round down their CCB percentage to the nearest whole number. The measures have been progressively introduced from November 2002. completing the 2002 census of child care services. Around 7400 services provided information on service and staff characteristics and the families and children attending. FaCS expects data to be published in September 2003.
Work is required to:examine the feedback, analysis and draft new funding models derived from the Child Care Support Broadband consultations and provide the Minister with a report and recommendations for consideration later in 2003 progress the recommendations from the think tank on child care workforce issues. FaCS is working with the states and territories and will develop a professional support initiative for the child care workforce through a new early childhood initiative announced in May 2003 by the Prime Minister and Minister for Children and Youth Affairs funded under the Stronger Families and Communities Strategy. support outside school hours care services to begin implementing quality assurance. The OSHCQA and continual improvement cycle takes up to two-and-a-half years, so FaCS expects the first services will be ready for accreditation in late 2004. continue to monitor the availability and affordability of child care further explore, in consultation with Centrelink, options for the child care industry to conduct business with the FAO through an online channel. A scoping study identified a high level of industry interest in online service delivery. complete production and distribution of a consolidated child care service handbook in September 2003. An online version of the handbook will also be delivered. Directory: sites -> default -> files files -> Answer True False 2 points Question 2 files -> Northern England’s set-jetting locations files -> Nstructions for Acquiring Excess Equipment online, through the 1033 Program files -> Occupational health and safety files -> The Black Panther Party’s Ten Point Program files -> International programs roel profile files -> Fermi Questions a guide for Teachers, Students, and Event Supervisors Lloyd Abrams, Ph. D. DuPont Company, cr&D/ccas experimental Station Wilmington, de 19880 files -> Personal Information Name: Maha Al-Ammari Nationality: Saudi Relationship Status Download 1.71 Mb. Share with your friends:
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