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Local Emergency Information

Families are reminded of Australian Government assistance with the cost of child care available during local emergencies, which can be found on the MyChild website.

For the latest news and alerts on the floods happening in states across Australia, information is available on the following sites:

• Australian Government Disaster Assist
• Centrelink

And by state:

Queensland

• Queensland Government
• Queensland Government - Natural Disasters
• Queensland State Emergency Services site
• Department of Communities Services

Victoria

• Victorian Government
• Department of Human Services

New South Wales

• New South Wales Government
• Department of Community Services

Local emergency arrangements to assist child care services

For more information on arrangements for child care services please see the CCMS Newsletter and special bulletins below:

• CCMS Newsletter Issue 19 (CCMS Newsletter Issue 19 PDF 210KB)
• CCMS Newsletter Issue 20 (CCMS Newsletter Issue 20 PDF 598KB | CCMS Newsletter Issue 20 RTF 92KB)
• Special Bulletin-Local emergency declaration & Special Child Care Benefit (Special Bulletin-Local emergency declaration & Special Child Care Benefit PDF 250KB | Special Bulletin-Local emergency declaration & Special Child Care Benefit RTF 92KB)
• Special bulletin - Business Continuity Payments (Special bulletin - Business Continuity Payments PDF 142KB)
• For a list of previous latest news items on Mychild relating to the Floods please check our news archive