Fee Structure and Policy

Fee Structure:
Daily $70
2 Days $148.00
3 Days $207.00
4 Days $256.00
Weekly $305.00
All figures include GST
Your child must be booked for a minimum of 2 days.

Booking Fee

• A non refundable booking fee of $20.00 is payable when enrolling your child to secure their position.  This fee covers administration set up costs including your child’s portfolio folder and stationery costs.
  

Enrolment/Withdrawal

• Once a child is enrolled and confirmation of a start date is given, all booked sessions will be charged, regardless of whether a child attends or not.
• Four weeks written notice is required if your child is leaving the centre.  Fees are payable during this notice period.

Payments

• Fees are to be paid either weekly or fortnightly in advance on the Friday.
• Automatic payment and internet banking are our preferred methods of payment as this minimises the amount of staff time required to process payments.

Details for payment are as follows:
ANZ Bank: 06-0229-0623871-00

• WINZ childcare subsidies are available for fee assistance depending on the level of your total family income.  Please talk to the supervisor regarding this.  This subsidy is only part payment for fees and parents must meet the balance.  Full fees will be charged until the centre receives the WINZ subsidy.

• The late payment of fees may incur a 10% penalty if fees are overdue by more than 1 week and this late payment penalty will be added to the overdue amount.  In addition, failure to keep fees up to date may result in a child’s enrolment being forfeited and the debt being passed onto a debt collection agency, for which the parent will be responsible for all costs incurred with the debt collection.
  

Family Discount

• Where there are 2 or more children from the same family attending full time at the centre a discount of 5% off the second child’s fees is available, provided that all due fees have been paid in advance.
  

Holidays/Statutory Holidays/Sick Days/Absences

• Fees are charged when your child is absent due to sickness or other reasons
  
• Fees will be charged for statutory holidays except for the 4 statutory days over the Christmas/New Year holiday period.
  
• Children may be entitled to 3 weeks holiday per year at a discounted rate of 50% of the regular weekly fees, to be discussed with the supervisor.  To qualify for the discount the absence must be for a consecutive period of 1 week or more, at least 2 weeks written notice must be given of the intended absence and all due fees have been paid in advance.
• We close at midday on the last day the centre is open before Christmas holiday break.

Other

• A cooked lunch is provided to children attending.  The cost of this is included in the fees.  We are unable to provide a credit if your child does not require lunch.
  
• For children who are picked up after the centre’s specified closing time, a late fee of $1 per minute shall be payable in cash directly to the staff member on duty.
  
• Fees are subject to change and may increase from time to time at the discretion of the centre.  At least 2 weeks’ notice will be given to parents of an increase in fees.
  

Effective from 01/04/13