Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Education and Training) Share this | Hansard source

Parents and service providers will have the opportunity to access this service by applying, and I encourage them to either visit the DSS website or phone the hotline number—1800249873—where they can get their questions answered and be helped through the application process. Our aspiration is to help support thousands of Australian families through this pilot and to make sure that, in future, governments will be able to structure childcare arrangements to meet the needs of all of Australia's working families, to provide all Australians with support when they want to get back into the workforce and to be able to have access to child care.

This is a generous program. Whether it is a nanny or a 'manny'—as they say in other instances—the opportunity is there for families to be able to get assistance that I am sure thousands will benefit from. I do encourage them to access that service and to apply in this first round of the new pilot.