Outside school hours care services in Australia 1996

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• Preliminary material
  • Title and verso pages
  • Contents
  • List of tables
  • Preface
• Sections
  1. Introduction
  2. Growth of outside school hours care services
     1. Description of outside school hours care services
     2. History
     3. Administrative statistics
  3. Funding and funding conditions
     1. Before/after school care and vacation care (year round care model)
     2. Vacation care services funded under the block grant arrangements
     3. Pilot Programs
     4. Summary
  4. Service quality
  5. Outside school hours care services in 1994
     1. Provision of before/after school hours care
     2. Links to vacation care
     3. Hours of operation
     4. Type of venue
     5. Fees
     6. Qualifications of staff
     7. Age of staff
  6. Services in the States and Territories
     1. New South Wales
     2. Victoria
     3. Queensland
     4. Western Australia
     5. South Australia
     6. Tasmania
     7. Australian Capital Territory
     8. Northern Territory
  7. Conclusion
• End matter
  • Appendixes
    1. Commonwealth strategies to increase the numbers of child care places 1972-1994
    2. Counting rules for Commonwealth-funded year round care places
    3. Commonwealth and State/Territory funding arrangements
    4. Pilot Programs - alternative models of provision
    5. Licensing, regulation and standards for outside school hour services
    6. Centre-based child care and family day care - regulations/guidelines relating to school age children
    7. Federal Budget 1997-98
    8. Abbreviations
  • References