Child Care Subsidy Amendment (Session Reports) Secretary’s Rules 2023

I, Tony Cook, Secretary of the Department of Education, make the following rules.

Dated 23 June 2023   

Tony Cook PSM

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Child Care Subsidy Secretary’s Rules 2017

1  Name

  This instrument is the Child Care Subsidy Amendment (Session Reports) Secretary’s Rules 2023.

2  Commencement

  This instrument commences on 1 July 2023.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Child Care Subsidy Secretary’s Rules 2017

1  At the end of the instrument

Insert:

Division 5—Contents of session reports

13  Information to be included in a session report

  For paragraph 204B(2)(c) of the Family Assistance Administration Act, a report must include the following information:

 (a) the week to which the report relates;

Note: Subject to subsection 3(6) of the Family Assistance Act, a week begins on a Monday for the purposes of CCS and ACCS.

 (b) the day the session of care was provided or would have been provided;

 (c) the start time and end time of the session of care for which the child was enrolled;

 (d) whether the child attended the session of care or any part of the session of care;

 (e) if the child attended the session of care or any part of the session of care—the time the child arrived at and the time the child departed the service;

 (f) if the child did not attend the session of care, and the session cannot be taken to have been provided under subsection 10(2) of the Family Assistance Act—whether the absence was for a reason set out in subsection 10(4) of the Family Assistance Act, and if so, the reason;

 (g) the amount the individual was liable to pay, or would, disregarding any discount allowed under section 201BA or 201BB of the Family Assistance Administration Act, have been liable to pay, for the session of care, reduced by any payment, other than a payment mentioned in subclause 2(2A) of Schedule 2 to the Family Assistance Act, which the individual benefited from in respect of the session;

 (h) whether the individual benefited from a payment prescribed under paragraph 2(2A)(c) of Schedule 2 to the Family Assistance Act in respect of the session;

 (i) if the individual did benefit from a payment prescribed under paragraph 2(2A)(c) of Schedule 2 to the Family Assistance Act in respect of the session:

 (i) the name of the party that made the payment;

 (ii) the amount of the payment;

 (j) if the session of care was provided by a FDC service or an IHC service—the personnel identifier assigned to the educator;

 (k) whether the session was part of an early education program for children as described in subparagraph 194D(a)(vi) of the Family Assistance Administration Act.