Are you looking to build your centre occupancy, increase your centre revenue and help families maximise their Child Care Subsidy entitlements – all without spending a fortune?
Yes?
Then let us introduce you to our Child Care Subsidy (CCS) Optimisation Guide – an all-in-one guide to help you traverse the complexities of the Child Care Subsidy, increase your centre occupancy and successfully implement sessional care at your centre.
Here our team explain exactly what this guide can do and how it will help you.
So, what are you waiting for? Download the guide today!
What is the Child Care Subsidy (CCS) Optimisation Guide and what does it do?
Often we see that families are unaware of the intricacies of the Child Care Subsidy and don’t fully understand how it’s calculated. What this means is, they also don’t how they can maximise their own entitlements.
Optimising a family’s Child Care Subsidy entitlements can be as simple as making a few tweaks or as significant as updating their entire enrolment – however, the effort almost always reaps rewards, which can be extremely beneficial for both families and Childcare Providers alike!
By educating families on what are appropriate activities, how the Child Care Subsidy is calculated for them, and also looking at Sessional Care for your centre, you can provide families with knowledge and flexibility – often leading to increased occupancy, increased revenue, and decreased staffing costs.
It’s what we can a win, win.
How will this guide help you and your centre?
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It will increase your centre occupancy
At its core, this guide is all about helping you to implement sessional care at your centre, so that you can provide a more flexible child care offering to your families.
Why is this important you might ask?
Because when you allow families to use sessional care, you can stretch the Child Care Subsidy entitlements further – which means they have the opportunity to pick up additional days, or casual days for often minimal increases in the gap fee.
These additional and casual days in turn increase your occupancy and revenue. It might even allow you to lower staffing costs at the beginning and end of a day.
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It will help you explain ‘Recognised Activities’ to families
This guide will help you to explain what ‘Recognised Activities’ are to families so that they can maximise the level of Child Care Subsidy entitlements they receive.
Most families will only claim for the paid work they do, and forget to include any study, volunteering, and unpaid work they complete each fortnight. This means that families could be missing out on hours of subsidised care – and so could you! Making families aware of these recognised activities could see their entitlements increase, and therefore their ability to pick up additional days for little or no change in their weekly costs.
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It will explain exactly how to implement the right Sessional Care for your centre.
There really is no downside to offering Sessional Care at your centre.
The social, financial and productivity benefits abound for your families, for your team, and for you. These far outweigh the additional work required to set up and implement Sessional Care with your families. It will:
- Make rostering easier and provide more flexible working arrangements for your staff as families will need to adhere to session rules and timings
- It will increase your occupancy due to families being able to financially afford more sessions of care using the same Child Care Subsidy entitlements
- It will provide families with flexible enrolment options allowing them to cater care to their specific circumstances and pick up the odd casual day – increasing your revenue
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It will provide you with a clear implementation roadmap with communications templates
It’s all well and good to know how to optimise your family’s CCS, but you have to sell it to them. Luckily, as part of the guide, we have also created a range of different communication templates to help you do just this.
These phone and email templates will help you explain exactly what the benefits are for families and what they need to do. With just a few calls and a little CCMS admin, you’ll be increasing your centre occupancy in no time!
This is just one of the many enrolment strategies our experienced team of Enrolments Consultants implement on a daily basis for our clients.
If you’re keen to know more, we’d love to chat! Just get in touch with our team today here.
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