Providers must apply to submit, update or withdraw session reports from a previous financial year.
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Applying to access session reports
After a financial year ends, the Child Care Subsidy System will close for that year.
You must apply to submit, update or withdraw a session report from a previous financial year. You must provide a separate application per family.
If you are applying to amend data for multiple children or weeks, you may provide information in a spreadsheet. This will only be accepted if the relevant information is provided in full.
Download an example spreadsheet.
When we’ll approve access
We only permit changes in limited circumstances. When assessing your application, we’ll consider:
- if you’re correcting an inaccurate enrolment notice, attendance record or fee error
- whether the change will impact on an individual’s CCS entitlement
- whether there is an acceptable reason for the change being requested in a subsequent financial year
- whether the application and proposed change contain accurate and complete information
- whether you have provided relevant evidence to support the change.
Types of evidence
Evidence to support an application may include:
- attendance records
- statements of entitlement
- enrolments or Complying Written Arrangements
- evidence of casual bookings
- proof of actual attendance
- receipts of gap fee payments.
Scenarios
The below scenarios will help you determine whether an application is appropriate. Please read them before applying.
The parent or carer claiming CCS changes
You must ensure your enrolments and session reports correctly identify the individual who is claiming CCS for each child.
Families should let you know if their personal circumstances change, including if the individual claiming CCS changes. You must then update their enrolment details once notified of the change.
If a family does not inform of a change in circumstances, it is their responsibility to resolve any issues regarding CCS payments and fee reductions with Services Australia.
You should not update or withdraw session reports from a previous financial year based on a request from a family.
Example
Parent A is identified as the CCS claimant on a child’s enrolment.
Parent A has told you that parent B has been paying child care fees for the last financial year. They would like their session reports to be backdated to reflect parent B as the CCS claimant.
As the child’s enrolment lists parent A as the CCS claimant, and the family did not advise you of any changes during the previous financial year, you should not apply to update or withdraw the session reports.
You are only required to change the enrolment to reflect parent B as the CCS claimant on the day you are notified of the change.
Example
Parent A is identified as the CCS claimant on a child’s enrolment.
Several months ago, the family completed a new enrolment form with parent B as the new CCS claimant. You failed to update the enrolment details to parent B and continued to submit session reports with parent A as the claimant.
In this example, you may apply to update session reports from a previous financial year as you did not update the enrolment details at the time of notification.
A family’s CCS entitlement changes
You should not update or withdraw session reports from a previous financial year if a family informs you that their entitlement to CCS has changed.
Services Australia will adjust a family’s CCS entitlement for a previous financial year as part of the CCS balancing process.
Example
A parent at your service has received a notification from Services Australia that the number of hours they were entitled to CCS for a period in the previous financial year has increased from 36 to 100 hours per fortnight.
The parent asks you to resubmit their session reports to reflect the extra CCS hours they were entitled to.
In this scenario, you should not apply to update or withdraw the session reports. This is because Services Australia will adjust the family’s entitlement when they balance their payment.
You should direct the family to Services Australia if they have questions about CCS balancing.
You submit session reports in bulk
It is common practice to submit session reports for multiple children in bulk or batches.
If you discover you’ve made an error on an individual child’s session report, you do not need to apply to update or withdraw the entire batch.
You should only request to update or withdraw the session reports for the individual child where the error was made.
More information
If you need more information about session reports, please contact the CCS Helpdesk on 1300 667 276 or email ccshelpdesk@education.gov.au.