What it covers

Home-based, measured against Schedule 1A

Home-based services run to a different rulebook from centres, and software that treats them as a centre with fewer children gets the ratios wrong. Oversite applies whichever schedule your service is licensed under.

The right rules for the right service

Schedule 2 sets 1:5 for under-twos and 1:10 for over-twos in a centre. Home-based is measured against Schedule 1A instead. Which one applies is a property of the service, recorded once, and every ratio and capacity check reads it from there.

Plenty of organisations run both, and the two sit in the same system without either one being forced into the other's shape.

  • Service type set per site, driving which schedule applies
  • Centre-based and home-based side by side in one organisation
  • Licence conditions recorded per service
  • Ratio checks that follow the correct schedule
The Sites list, where each service carries its own type and licence, so the ratio and funding rules applied match what it is licensed as.

Educators, and the coordinator who visits them

The regulatory weight in home-based sits on the coordinator relationship: who is responsible for which educators, when they last made contact, and when they last visited. Those are tracked and reminded rather than kept in a diary.

Educators carry the same vetting and safety-check requirements as centre staff, with the same expiry tracking behind them.

  • Educators held with their own certification and vetting
  • A coordinator assigned to each educator
  • Fortnightly contact and monthly visit reminders
  • Safety checks tracked to their renewal dates
The staff list, where home-based educators are held with their certifications, vetting and the coordinator responsible for them.

Attendance, funding and paying educators

Funded hours have to be evidenced the same way whether the care happened in a centre or in someone's home, so the attendance trail behind an RS7 return works identically.

Educator payments are worked out from the hours already recorded, rather than from a separate return that has to agree with them.

  • Attendance recorded per child, wherever they are cared for
  • RS7 returns built from that attendance
  • Educator payments calculated from recorded hours
  • The same census and pay parity work as a centre
The Attendance records screen listing check-in and check-out times for children, filterable by site, child and date range, and exportable for a funding return. The Attendance records screen in dark mode, showing the same check-in and check-out trail across every home-based educator, with the centre each child is attached to.

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