The Joint Compliance and Monitoring Program provides compliance and monitoring activities to target early childhood providers at risk of misusing government funding.
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About
In May 2021, the government announced the Better Child Care Regulation Measure. A key part of the measure was the pilot Joint Compliance and Monitoring Program. Through this, we conducted compliance activities with state and territory regulatory authorities (SRA). The pilot took place from January 2022 through to June 2023. New South Wales and Victorian regulatory authorities participated in the pilot.
In July 2024, the government funded the ongoing Joint Compliance and Monitoring Program. The program aims to expand membership and provide funding to all states and territories by 2027.
SRA membership includes:
- New South Wales
- Northern Territory
- Victoria
- South Australia
- Queensland.
Functions
We work with the SRA to target high risk providers for compliance action. High risk providers pose a substantial risk of serious non-compliance under National Law (NL) and Family Assistance Law (FAL).
Benefits
Financial
Our work ensures Child Care Subsidy (CCS) is administered correctly. This leads to:
- improved payment integrity, compliance, quality and safety outcomes
- significant savings to the administration of CCS, achieved through increased compliance in the sector.
Administrative efficiencies
Sharing data, resources and intelligence supports a consistent national approach to compliance, quality and safety. Joint compliance activities increase the efficiency and responsiveness of compliance and enforcement actions, including sanctions.
Better compliance outcomes
Sharing data under both the NL and FAL to target high risk providers for joint compliance activities leads to increased compliance across the sector and nationally coordinated responses to non-compliance. Compliance and enforcement action against non-compliant providers is more efficient when we take a coordinated approach across jurisdictions.
How to report suspected fraud
If you have information related to people or child care services or providers who are not following the rules, can you report it to us anonymously.
We take all accounts of suspected fraud seriously.
Our CCS fraud tip-off form is anonymous and only takes a few minutes to complete.
Find out more about reporting CCS fraud or to access the tip-off form.