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What are the average fees charged by Long Day Care services in Australia?
The fees charged by child care services vary across different areas of
Australia and between states and territories. Variations in fees are due to a
number of factors including different State and Territory licensing requirements
that determine child/staff ratios, accommodation costs and whether the fee
includes charges for additional services such as nappies, meals and educations
programs.
The table below shows the average daily fees charged by Long Day Care (LDC)
services at 31 July 2008 in each state/territory and across different
remoteness. The table includes only Australian Government approved LDC
services who voluntarily reported fee information for the
mychild.gov.au website.
The Minister for Education has recently written to all services asking them to
update their fee information on the website. This table will be amended when
updates are available.
It should be noted that:
• The fees in the table are an average and are therefore an indication only. The
fees reported in the table do not reflect the variation in fees for different
age groups. For information on the fees charged by individual services, visit
http://ifp.mychild.gov.au.
• Some LDC services would have included costs for additional provisions such as
nappies, meals and education programs in the fees they reported.
• Fees do not include Child Care Benefit (CCB) or Child Care Tax Rebate (CCTR)
reductions.
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Average Long Day Care Daily Fees as at 31 July 2008 by State/Territory and Remoteness |
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State/Territory |
Major Cities of Australia |
Inner Regional Australia |
Outer Regional Australia |
Remote Australia |
Very Remote Australia |
National average |
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NSW |
$61.87 |
$55.93 |
$52.80 |
$47.40 |
- |
$60.36 |
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Vic |
$66.78 |
$59.92 |
$58.59 |
- |
- |
$65.25 |
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Qld |
$58.26 |
$57.07 |
$56.22 |
$56.20 |
$44.28 |
$57.50 |
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SA |
$60.15 |
$56.91 |
$55.29 |
$53.90 |
$39.00 |
$59.14 |
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WA |
$62.31 |
$59.29 |
$57.51 |
$65.15 |
$56.94 |
$61.43 |
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Tas |
- |
$57.92 |
$51.86 |
- |
$50.00 |
$56.15 |
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NT |
- |
- |
$55.82 |
$51.20 |
$57.60 |
$55.05 |
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ACT |
$67.14 |
$57.00 |
- |
- |
- |
$66.93 |
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Australia |
$62.27 |
$57.31 |
$55.62 |
$57.21 |
$50.99 |
$60.68 |
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Remoteness classifications are based on the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia (ARIA) 2006. For more information on ARIA, please refer to ABS publications Australian Standard Geographical Classification (ASGC) 2006 (cat. no. 1216.0) and Information Paper: ABS Views on Remoteness 2001 (cat no. 1244.0). |
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