If a family plans to take a child on an extended holiday, it is worth having a conversation with them in good time about their options for holding their place in your service.

The Child Care Provider Handbook has this to say, in Chapter 6.1, about long absences:

If a long absence is anticipated, the plans for this, and how it will be managed, can be specified in the Complying Written Arrangement.

However, where a child does not attend a service within a period of eight weeks or more, the enrolment will be taken to have ended.

Even where an absence longer than eight weeks is planned in the Complying Written Arrangement, a new enrolment notice will need to be submitted when care recommences after the absence. If a long absence is planned, the family may prefer to end the enrolment and submit a new notice when physical attendance recommences, so that the child’s initial 42 day absences are not used up.

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