2024 Fee Relief top-up payment collection - Start Strong for Community Preschools

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Introduction

In 2024, the Fee Relief Payment under the Start Strong for Community Preschools program provided eligible community and mobile preschools with funding to deliver 600 hours of low cost, or no cost preschool to eligible children. Passing through this funding directly to families in the form of fee relief is a requirement of the program.

This form is to be completed by service providers who are seeking a fee relief top-up payment due to enrolment changes in 2024. For example, an increase in overall enrolments or an increase in hours of enrolment. 
 
The fee relief data collection will capture your service's fee relief expenditure and change in enrolments for the 2024 calendar year. The department will use this information to calculate a potential fee relief top-up payment. Submitting this form does not guarantee a top-up payment. 

The form will request 2024 enrolment information on a per term basis to assist with the calculation and verification of fee relief pass through.

Information submitted in the 2024 Annual Preschool Census and any relevant financial acquittal documents will be used to verify information submitted in this form.

Before you start please ensure you have :

  • your 2024 enrolment information for each term; and
  • your 2024 fee relief expenditure for the year.

You are also encouraged to review your

  • fee relief funding allocation for 2024 prior to commencing a submission (for example, using your 2024 Start Strong for Community Preschools program funding letter). This will assist with completing the sections asking you to reconcile your expenditure.
  • 2024 Annual Preschool Census submission (available in ECCMS) to assist with verifying your enrolment information. 
Please note the fee relief data collection does not replace the annual accountability requirements. This collections refers to Fee Relief Payments only, and does not include Program Payments.

Please refer to the fee relief scenario, and Fee Relief Top-up Payment Help Guide for further information. The 2024 Start Strong for Community Preschools program guidelines are available here for further program information. 

For support with the fee relief data collection, please send an email through to the department's funding teams at ecec.funding@det.nsw.edu.au, or contact the department’s Information and Enquiries team at 1800 619 113.
 
By entering a submission for the Start Strong for Community Preschools fee relief data collection, you acknowledge and agree that you have taken steps to ensure that any person whose personal information is included in a submission has consented to the disclosure of that information to the department, and the collection and use of that information by the department, consistent with the below privacy notice

Privacy Notice

The NSW Department of Education (the department) is committed to protecting the privacy of personal information in accordance with the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (NSW) (PIPP Act).

In this form, the department is collecting personal information including: 
• your name;
• the service’s name, service approval ID, email and phone number, plus the provider name, provider approval ID and ABN; and 
• any other personal information you provide in response to a question. 
The provision of this information is voluntary. If you do not provide this information the department may be unable to provide you with a top-up fee relief payment.
 
The department will use this information to: 
• assist with the calculation of, and verification of eligibility for, a top-up fee relief payment; 
• contact you to discuss your fee relief funding and expenditure; and 
• analyse how funds from the department were used or not used.
 
The department will not disclose the personal information to third parties unless authorised by law or with your consent. 
 
Personal information will be held and managed by the department in accordance with the PPIP Act and subject to the department’s privacy policy (available at: https://education.nsw.gov.au/rights-and-accountability/privacy). For further information please see the department’s Privacy Management Plan (https://education.nsw.gov.au/content/dam/main-education/about-us/rights-and-accountability/media/documents/privacy/privacy-management-plan-march-2014.pdf).
 
To access or amend your personal information please email us at ecec.funding@det.nsw.edu.au or call us on 1800 619 113.
 
If you have a concern or complaint about the way your personal information has been collected, used or disclosed you should contact: 
Legal Services – Privacy
Department of Education  
GPO Box 33
Sydney NSW 2001 
E: legal.privacy@det.nsw.edu.au.