Additional Child Care Subsidy

Additional Child Care Subsidy - Child Wellbeing

Additional Child Care Subsidy - Child Wellbeing can be accessed for a child at serious risk of neglect. This is the equivalent of the old ‘CRK’ that could be claimed on an attendance.

Note the following:

  • You must submit an ACCS certificate to start accessing ACCS for a child
  • The initial certifcate runs for a maximum of 6 weeks
  • To continue to access ACCS beyond 6 weeks for a child or if this child will take you above the 50% cap you must complete a full determination

Accessing ACCS - Child Wellbeing

  1. Create a CWA enrolment (not an ACCS enrolment) in SmartCentral for the child in question with their CRN and submit it
  2. Go to the ACCS TAB on the enrolment and create the ACCS certificate for 6 weeks linking up the CWA enrolment;
  • start date must be a monday
  • end date must be a Sunday
  • initial certificate can be for up to 6 weeks
  • once approved it will appear on the drop down cert box for a new determination and the ACCS % will be on the enrolment
  • when required, you can add a new determination to submit for approval under the ACCS TAB and link it to the 6 week ACCS cert

CCS ACCS TAB

ENROLMENT ACCS TAB

  1. Start submitting attendances as normal

Enrolments with a TYPE ACCS must only be used when you determined there is no one eligible to claim for the child and you the service provider will be the ‘parent’ for the purpose of this enrolment. For more information on ACCS Enrolments see below.

Other types of ACCS

Other types of ACCS are :

  • Grandparent
  • Temporary Fincancial Hardship
  • Transition to Work

These types are applied for by the carer directly to centrelink and show up in the subsidy calculations.

ACCS Enrolments

ACCS Enrolments are the equivalent of the old Service SCCB and are only to be used when no parent can be identified who is eligible.

A provider may identify a child at risk of neglect or abuse who meets relevant criteria but may be unable to identify a parent or carer - an individual or claimant - who is eligible for Additional Child Care Subsidy (child wellbeing). In these cases, as a last resort, the provider may enrol the child under an ‘Additional Child Care Subsidy (child wellbeing) - provider eligible arrangement’. This arrangement will end once the child is no longer at risk.

In this situation, the provider effectively becomes the individual in relation to that child, although a different arrangement will apply to the enrolment.

Where a provider is making themselves eligible (where there is no individual), the system process is as follows:

  • Create an ‘ACCS (Child Wellbeing) – Provider Eligible’ enrolment (the CRN field will be left blank) – not always
  • Complete the ‘Request for a child’s Customer Reference Number (CRN)’ form and email this to the Child Wellbeing team at child.wellbeing@education.gov.au. The form can be provided by the helpdesk or the service can request for the form by emailing child.wellbeing@education.gov.au. The form is not public at this stage, however it has been provided to services who were using the equivalent option under S-SCCB
  • The Child Wellbeing team will request for a CRN from DHS. This will, on average take about two working days
  • The Child Wellbeing team will update the child’s enrolment with the new CRN and services will receive an email to let them know this has been completed

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