Approved providers asked to ‘get in quick’ for public consultation on approval streamline

Approved providers have been advised by the Federal Department of Education regarding the Department’s intentions to consider streamlining early childhood education and childcare approval processes across Australian states and territories.

1. to ultimately streamline the applications/approvals processes so that once approved in any one jurisdictions as a new Approved Provider or for Child Care Subsidy (CCS), such approvals will be recognised across for all jurisdictions;
2. to NOT lengthen the overall time that multiple/concurrent government processes are meant to take;
3. to reduce existing duplications for applications and the at times inconsistent documentation required of the same Approved Provider across jurisdictions; and,
4. to strengthen the standards and achieving consistency of processes to detect and prevent fraudulent behaviour (where certain Regulatory Authorities are more effective than other Regulatory Authorities).