Privacy and Child Care Subsidy

Personal information you collect from families

You collect personal information from families when you enrol children. You share this information with us so they can get CCS.

When you collect personal information from families, you must make sure that they:

• know that you are collecting their personal information
• understand that you will share this information with us
• consent to you sharing this information with us.

So that families can get CCS, we need to:

• collect their personal information
• share this information with other government departments, like Services Australia.

We are authorised to collect and disclose this information under FAL.

Make sure that families understand that we cannot provide CCS without their permission for you to share information with us.

Read more about notifying families about collecting their personal information in APP 5 Notification of the collection of personal information.

Protecting personal information that you collect

You must also take reasonable steps to protect the personal information that you hold about families.

This includes keeping families’ information safe from:

• misuse, interference and loss
• unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.

Read more about the security of personal information in APP 11 Security of personal information.

Personal information we collect and disclose

We collect and disclose personal information on providers and families to administer CCS.

This may include disclosure and collection of information with other Commonwealth departments, such as Services Australia.

We are authorised to collect and disclose this information under Family Assistance Law (FAL).

More information

Our privacy policy embodies our commitment to protecting the personal information we hold.

Visit the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner’s website for more information on the Australian Privacy Principles.