Charges for flexible hours offered by Goodstart, page-2

This change will not be isolated to just Goodstart and will be replicated across the industry.

This is to purely optimise the CCS for the family's benefit, due to how the CCS is now applied.

It no longer makes sense in the majority of cases where the hourly fee is less then the CCS rate to apply as many hour as possible (this was the case for CCB).

The CCS is now capped by the CCS percentage of the fee or the CCS percentage of the hourly rate.

Hence it will be more efficient in centres where the fees are relatively low, to apply less hours over more days. Which I imagine is the majority of Goodstart centres.

In my opinion the more flexibility of care narrative is just political rhetoric and immaterial to the industry as it stands.

The reporting of hours is also irrelevant as any application of basing charges on actual use of childcare would be damaging to the industry.

It would also be very unpopular to implement as it would just mean the industry will have to charge a higher average hourly fees to compensate for the fixed costs of the business.

It would also undermine the employees, as the centres would require more casualisation of the work force to allow centres the flexibility in responding to varying care hours of the children. Which I imagine the union would despise.

What numbers are you skeptical of?