Allocating Places at HEY

HEY allocates Long Day Care places in line with the following priorities of access:

1. Children who are currently attending the Service
2. Employee’s children
3. Siblings of children who currently attend the Service
4. Children at risk of serious abuse or neglect
5. A child of a single parent or parents who both satisfy the Child Care Subsidy activity test
6. Any other child

Within these categories priority is also given to;

a. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families
b. Children with diagnosed additional needs*

*Children with diagnosed additional needs, will be enrolled, if in the opinion of management the Service can meet the child’s needs. Additional resources and funding may be required.

4 year old funded kindergarten places at HEY will be offered in accordance with the Government Priority of Access Guidelines as follows:

• Priority 1: a child at risk of serious abuse or neglect
• Priority 2: a child of a single parent or parents who satisfy the work/training/study test under Section 14 of the ‘A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999’
• Priority 3: any other child.

Within these main categories, priority for 4 year old funded kindergarten places should also be given to the following children:

• children in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families
• children in families which include a disabled person
• children in families which include an individual whose adjusted taxable income does not exceed the lower income threshold of $45,114 for 2017-18, or who or whose partner is on income support
• children in families from a non-English speaking background
• children in socially isolated families
• children of single parents.

All Sessional Kindergarten applications and offers are conducted through the Boroondara Kindergarten Central Enrolement Scheme (BKCES)

For more information please contact the Boroondara Council on 9278 4444 or visit www.boroondara.vic.gov.au/community-support/children-and-families/kindergarten