New Requirements for Four-Weekly CCMS StatementsHave the new reporting requirements increased your administrative burden?
As of 1 September 2009 approved child care services operating under the Child Care Management System are required to provide four weekly information statements to parents and guardians.
Services which fail to comply with this requirement may be issued civil penalties and/or infringement notices by the Government.
The statements should provide parents with information about the sessions of care, costs of child care and the amount of Child Care Benefit paid for children during the four-week period.
According to the new regulations, the statements must be issued within four weeks of the end of each statement period. If your service has not yet provided statements, it should now issue them to parents for all sessions of care since the beginning of 2009.
From July 2009 services operating on the CCMS will need to meet the four-weekly statement requirements to avoid being penalised.
President of the Child Care National Association Chris Buck said in the Herald Sun that the fines were unnecessary because the Government has the power to deal with rogue operators by stopping funds.
"The new regulations very clearly say individuals are liable and a child care worker or an organisation could be wiped out if they make a number of inadvertent simple computer key strokes.
The Government knows that the child care industry has high staff turnover and low computer literacy -- a combination which is likely to result in mistakes being made.
This is a flawed way of dealing with potential fraud,” he said.
For more information on your obligations contact your CCMS software provider or the CCMS Helpdesk on 1300 667 276 or ccmshelpdesk@deewr.gov.au.
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