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

As I was saying, the childcare reforms of our government will provide those providers with more flexibility and more support. For the first time ever, those services will be able to increase their income by expanding their service delivery instead of being constrained by a fixed amount of grant allocation. This expansion, of course, sits alongside the rights of parents accessing those services to be able to access government support for their childcare costs for the first time ever. The education department is already providing support to BBF services to enable them to transition to the new childcare system. All of the 300 or so BBF services have already been contacted and are being provided with regular information. Specialist consultants will provide one-on-one support to help services develop transition implementation plans and will fund the resources and provide training to support BBF services to connect with the new mainstream childcare system and the IT system as part of that. We want to support these services during this transition, to ensure that they are able to benefit from the full range of our childcare reforms. (Time expired)