Last updated April 2021 (v2.1). Reviewed annually.
Being exists for our Mission: to cause a powerful future for your child. In doing so, we are committed to working with you to develop your child for their whole life - school and beyond. We do this by surrounding your child with extraordinary educators who deliver sector-leading pedagogy, all with love and care.
To sustainably deliver our service, we rely on our families honouring their reciprocal obligation to pay fees.
This Policy outlines the requirements and obligations of Being and you, our parents and families.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| You, family or parent | Means you - a person or organisation who has a child under their guardianship enrolled at a Being. |
| Us, Being | Means Being Early Education. |
To confirm a place at Being, you will be required to pay a non-refundable Enrolment Confirmation fee. This fee will vary service by service, and is used to offset the administrative cost of creating your enrolment.
When enrolling at Being, you will nominate specific days of the week that your child will be booked to attend our service (weekly bookings). Each booking at Being is allocated to a session which has a daily fee associated with it (daily session rate).
Every Being service has its own unique catalogue of sessions and daily sessions rates which are designed to meet the individual needs of the community. These may change from time to time.
Your total weekly fees will be calculated as the number of weekly bookings times by the applicable daily session rate.
In attending Being, you may be entitled to receive the Child Care Subsidy (otherwise known as CCS). CCS is a Commonwealth subsidy administered through Centrelink. If you are eligible for CCS, a portion of your fees will be subsidised on a weekly basis through payments made directly to Being (weekly CCS subsidy). You are required to pay the remaining fee (your weekly gap fee).
Weekly gap fee = Total weekly fees - weekly CCS subsidy
Your weekly gap fee is your out of pocket expense.
In order to administer CCS and manage payment of your gap fee, we use a system called Xplor. Xplor is software that talks to Centrelink on a weekly basis to determine your weekly CCS subsidy, and then calculates and charges your gap fee. By Law, we are required to use a system like Xplor to manage the administration of CCS.