Child Care Subsidy implications and Allowable absences (42 per financial year)

If your child has not attended child care for 14 weeks in a row, both of the following will apply:

• your enrolment with the child care service will end.
• Centrelink will not pay any absences after the last day your child physically attended care.

This means that if you child was booked but did not attend the first or last session within the last 14 weeks, any subsidy that was paid originally will be revoked by Centrelink, and a statement will be generated in your TeamKids account and processed on the Wednesday charge run.

Read more about what happens if Centrelink end your enrolment.

PLEASE NOTE: This charge may occur 14 weeks after the holidays have finished. Remember this only applies to a cancelled session, without a medical certificate, on your first and last day of attendance.

Allowable absences

Services Australia - How many absences you can get

You can get up to 42 allowable absence days per child each financial year.

If you reach your allowable absence limit, you may be able to get additional absences. You may get additional absences if any of these apply:

• your child is ill
• your child’s carer or their partner or another person your child lives with is ill
• your child is attending preschool
• alternative arrangements have been made for your child on a pupil-free day
• your child hasn’t been immunised against an infectious disease and the absence occurs during an immunisation grace period
• your child is spending time with a person other than their usual carer as required by a court order or parenting plan
• your child’s child care service is closed because of an event for which a CCS period of emergency has been declared
• your child can’t attend because of an event for which a CCS period of emergency has been declared
• your child’s carer chooses not to send the child because of an event for which a CCS period of emergency has been declared.

If a medical certificate or statutory declaration is provided to TeamKids within 7 days of an absence, this will not count towards your allowable absences in that financial year

Read more here