CCS Package Impact for Services and Families

Helping the Australian Institute for Family Studies assess the Child Care Package-Jobs for Families

Closing date 31 July 2019.

We are keen to understand your experiences of the Child Care Package (also known as Jobs for Families). The questions below will help us to respond to evaluation of the package with regards to effects on services and families.

We would welcome your input both in rating each element described below and providing some context or examples where you can.

Please feel free to answer as few or many questions as are relevant to your context. CELA will be analysing your answers and using the information to contribute to the Australian Institute of Families Studies three-year assessment of the Child Care Package for the Commonwealth Department of Education.

You can read more about the background to this study here, and here.

Your response will be anonymous, however you are welcome to get in touch with us directly using info@cela.org.au if you wish to share any other information.

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* 1. It will be very helpful to our report if you can share your postcode with us. If you don't know your postcode you can quickly check it with Australia Post here.

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* 2. How would you describe the general impact of the Child Care Package on your service – ranging from 5, entirely positive, to 1, entirely negative?

5 - entirely positive

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1 - entirely negative

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* 3. Please provide a brief comment or an example to help us understand why you chose this rating about the general impact of the Child Care Package?

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* 4. How would you rate the simplicity of administering the package from your service or provider's perspective– from 5, much simpler, to 1, much more complicated. (You'll be asked the same question about families administering the package shortly).

5 - much simpler

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1 - much more complicated

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i We adjusted the number you entered based on the slider’s scale.

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* 5. Please provide a brief comment or example to help us understand why you chose this rating for the simplicity of administering the package as a service or provider?

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* 6. How would you rate the simplicity of administering the package from the perspective of families– from 5, much simpler, to 1, much more complicated.

5 - much simpler

No change

1 - much more complicated

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* 7. Please provide a brief comment or example to help us understand why you chose this rating about the simplicity of administering the package for families?

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* 8. How would you rate the impact of the package on your service's viability – from 5, much improved, to 1, much worse.

5 - much improved

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1 - much worse

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* 9. Please provide a brief comment or example of your experience to help us understand why you chose this rating about how the package affects your service's viability?

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* 10. How would you rate the general impact of the package on making your service affordable for all families, from 5, much more affordable, to 1, much less affordable.

5 - much more affordable

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1 - much less affordable

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* 11. Please provide a brief comment or example of your experience to help us understand why you chose this rating about how the package affects your service's affordability?

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* 12. How would you rate the impact of the package on your service's affordability for disadvantaged families – from 5, much more affordable, to 1, much less affordable.

5 - much more affordable

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1 - much less affordable

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* 13. Thinking about your answer to Question 12, could you please help us understand if affordability has changed in different ways for different kinds of disadvantaged families? For example, unemployed parents may experience different issues now with the Child Care Subsidy than parents from Indigenous families, and farming families may be affected in different ways to those living in rural towns.

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* 14. How would you rate the impact of the package on your service's availability of places (meeting demand) – from 5, much improved to 1, much worse.

5 - much improved

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1 - much worse

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* 15. Please provide a brief comment or example of your experience to help us understand why you chose this rating about how the package affects the availability of places for families? For example, has the implementation of the package had any effect on your waiting list, or vacancy rate?

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* 16. How would you rate the impact of the package on how well you can provide for children with additional needs – from 5, much better, to 1, much worse.

5 - much better

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1 - much worse

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* 17. Please provide a brief comment or example of your experience to help us understand why you chose this rating about how the package affects children with additional needs?

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* 18. How would you rate the impact of the package on how you can support vulnerable children – from 5, much more support, to 1, much less support.

5 - much more support

No change

1 - much less support

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i We adjusted the number you entered based on the slider’s scale.

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* 19. Please provide a brief comment or example of your experience to help us understand why you chose this rating about how the package affects vulnerable children? As in Question 13, you may have found that some vulnerable children have benefited while others have experienced no change, or reduced benefits, as a result of the package.

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* 20. Please provide any examples or further information to highlight your rating, including which cohorts are particularly benefiting or missing out under the new package. If you wish to contact us directly, too, please use the email info@cela.org.au after you've completed this survey

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* 21. One last question: please help us understand your answers even more clearly by telling us your current role. Select from the dropdown menu or use the Other option if your role isn't there.