shafaqat309

Hi

My daughter will be 4 years old in April 2014, planning to start kindergarten, confused with lots of terms used for same purpose, i think, wondering what is the difference between

• Day care
• Half day care
• Full day care
• Child care
• Kindergarten
• Child care rebate
• Child care benefit
• Registered Care
• Approved Care

I have visited 3 "Kindergarten" centers near my area and all have different rates per day, visited center link today to check how much rebate i an entitled to but they gave me another CRN for my daughter and told me to write this number on application form for "Kindergarten" and they have no idea on rebate.

bitzenpces

Day care: usually a childcare centre, some offer half-days, most would be full-days, sometimes childcare centres are referred to as long day childcare centres.

A childcare centre must be approved or registered, or other care providers must be registered to receive government funding and parents are to receive some sort of rebate or refund. Childcare benefit is income-tested, childcare rebate is not. More info here.

Many childcare centres also have kindy or pre-primary programs, run by qualified early learning teachers.

There's also family day care, before and after school care, and vacation care - these last 3 are also known as out of school hours care. There are also programs in some states for 3 year olds who miss the cut-off day for starting kindy at a state school.

Hope this helps, good luck in finding somewhere for your daughter.