What is out-of-scope care?

The intent of the Australian Government’s In Home Care Initiative is a subsidised program is to provide early education and care where the needs of the family cannot be met by traditional outside of home child care facilities.

As such, certain activities are not covered by the Child Care Subsidy and therefore, are considered to be outside the scope of the program:

• Household chores such as cleaning, shopping, and meal preparation, unless incidental to caring for the child/children in the session of IHC.

• Multi-care (i.e. where care is provided for children from more than one family).

• Where the primary purpose is to provide other support services, including parental support, disability support, allied health, or respite care.

• Supervision of formal schooling, including distance education and home schooling.

• Education and care provided by a family member, except where exemptions apply.

• Education and care provided by unqualified educators, except where exemptions apply.

• Transport only (i.e. the session of care cannot be only for the purposes of transporting children)

• Any other activities unrelated to education and care.

 If your Educator completes any of the above activities then Child Care Subsidy cannot be applied to your fees whilst these activities are completed.

We do provide these services by arrangement, however, when providing any of these services, our full hourly rate will be applicable rather than the rate that is subsidised by the In Home Care program.