The Inclusion and Professional Support Program aims to promote and maintain high quality care and inclusion for all children in eligible child care services by increasing the skill level of carers and service staff. Illawarra Children's Services delivers inclusion support to eligible child care services in the Illawarra and NSW South East regions, through a network of Inclusion Support Facilitators (ISFs) based in local areas. - Target groups The Inclusion Support Program aims to build the capacity of eligible child care services to include children from the following groups who require additional support to access mainstream child care services: - children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds,
including refugee children The services that are eligible to access inclusion support are: - Australian Government Approved Child Care Services, including both private and community centre based long day care, outside school hours care including vacation care, family day care, occasional care, and in-home care. - Australian Government funded non-mainstream child care services (non-Child Care Benefit) such as flexible/multifunctional services, Multifunctional Aboriginal Children's Services (MACS), non-mainstream outside school hours care, non-formula funded occasional care (100 per cent Australian Government funded) and mobile child care services. Check the team contact list to locate your service's Inclusion Support Facilitator (Illawarra and NSW South East regions), and find details of each region's office locations.
As part of the Inclusion and Professional Support Program (IPSP) Illawarra Children's Services approves Flexible Support Funding (FSF) applications and processes FSF Claims for Payment. The following forms are available for services to assist with submitting claims for payment. - Attendance
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For more information regarding the Inclusion and Professional Support Program, visit the DEEWR website. Illawarra Inclusion Support and NSW South East Inclusion Support are initiatives of the Inclusion and Professional Support Program, funded by the Australian Government.
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