Blog - Australian Childcare Alliance

deadline 31

The Department of Education and Training (DET) has recently sent out an email to remind service providers that today (May 31st) is the deadline to submit the online Transition Form.

All providers, or their legal representatives, have been asked to complete the online transition form for all of their services by the end of May. If you haven't yet done this, now is the time to log onto the new Child Care Subsidy System (CCSS) immediately to complete and submit your online Transition Form.

As the commencement date (2 July) for the new Child Care Subsidy gets closer, families will be keen to find out what their actual Child Care Subsidy Rate and Eligible hours per fortnight will be under the new system.

Families can now make use of our Child Care Subsidy Calculator - a quick and easy alternative to Centrelink's Payment and Service Finder - to estimate their level of fortnightly support and their out-of-pocket “gap” fee under the Australian Government's Child Care Subsidy (CCS).

The National ECS, FOI & Privacy Commissioners & Ombudsman re independent, statutory officers appointed by the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Education Council under national applied laws legislation – the Education and Care Services National Law.

They provide a free service dealing with complaints about the bodies responsible for implementing Australia’s early childhood education and care regulatory system - that is, the Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority (ACECQA) and the State and Territory Regulatory Authorities (RAs).

Their roles were set up in 2012 to assist in ensuring that the national regulatory framework for early childhood education and care is accountable, responsive and fair.