Child Care Subsidy Secretary’s Rules 2017
7Information to be contained in an application to add a service
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7 Information to be contained in an application to add a service
For paragraph 196A(2)(b) of the Family Assistance Administration Act, an application to add a service to a provider’s approval must contain all of the following (as applicable): (a) the unique provider approval number given to the provider by the Secretary; (b) the name and contact details for the provider’s representative in respect of the application; (c) for every service to be added to the provider’s approval: (i) the proposed name of the service—being, where a business name has been registered with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission in respect of the service, that name; (ii) any approval number issued under the Education and Care Services National Law, as it applies in a State or Territory, in relation to an education and care service approval under that law; (iii) the type of service being applied for, as referred to in subclause 2(3) of Schedule 2 to the Family Assistance Act; (iv) the physical and postal address of the service where the service proposes to provide sessions of care; (v) the name and contact details for each person responsible for the day‑to‑day operation of the service; (vi) in relation to each person responsible for the day‑to‑day operation of the service, where the person is an individual—a national police check from a State or Territory police service, or an agency accredited by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, carried out no more than 6 months before the date of the application; (vii) where the application is made by a person proposing to operate an FDC service or an IHC service, a declaration that all proposed educators are fit and proper persons having regard to any prior actions involving fraud or dishonesty and their capacity to comply with the family assistance law; (d) where the application is made in respect of an IHC service, evidence that there has been contact with an In Home Care Support Agency (within the meaning of section 49B of the Child Care Subsidy Minister’s Rules 2017) for the purposes of providing the IHC service.