LIVE FROM 8th October 2018
Under the Child Care Subsidy rules an arrangement for care must be agreed between the Service and the ‘Individual’ for each enrolment. In SmartCentral the ‘Individual’ is the person designated as Parent1.
The rules allow that arrangement to be in paper or digital form and specifies the information that must be included in that arrangement.
To be considered a Complying Written Arrangement or CWA (the only type for which a parent can receive subsidy) it must contain the following information :
Additional information can be included to support the individual’s understanding of their payment obligations.
Almost all enrolment forms would have included this information as a matter of course so the requirement is really just formalising good practice, possibly requiring some small wording changes to make explicit that the parent is ‘liable for the full amount’ not just the ‘gap’.
To streamline this process we have added functions to digitally generate a Complying Written Arrangement with the option to download and print a PDF for signing or email it to the parent with an acknowledgement link.
This process is also built into the online application approval process. In both cases the latest booking is used generate the notice so it can be used to confirm updates as well.
The text in the second row of the table is configurable. Edit this in Account > Setup Org.
We highly recommend you include your own wording and a reference or link to your parent handbook.
Links can be inserted using the Markdown format. For example :
[my page](https://wiki.smartcentral.net/CWA)
displays as
The status of the notices are tracked from the Enrolments list. A new filter has been added to allow you to manage notices and an operation to generate and send in bulk has been added.
Select your filter settings as needed and click Update & Email CWA to regenerate and resend CWA notices to all enrolments on the currently filtered list.
Status Values:
A new section has been added to the enrolment screen as well so you can keep track of the notice status while on the enrolment screen.
From here you can : - Generate and send CWA notices - view the last notice generated - download a PDF version of the notice - view when it was last generated - view the date and time it was emailed to the parent (if sent) - view the date and time it was acknowledged by the parent (if they did)