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Cathy McGowan I move the amendments circulated in my name: (1) Schedule 4, page 233 (after line 10), after item 235, insert: 235A After section 232 Insert: 232A Community Child Care Fund—guidelines for funding (1) The Secretary must, no later than 1 July 2017, publish on the Department's website guidelines outlining the criteria that will be used in determining how funding will be allocated from the Community Child Care Fund. (2) The Minister must table before each House of the Parliament, on the next sitting day of the House after the guidelines are published under subsection (1), a copy of the guidelines. 232B Community Child Care Fund—assessment of likely impact on rural and regional areas (1) The Secretary must, no later than 1 July 2017: (a) conduct an assessment of the impact that the replacement of the Budget Based Funded Program with the Community Child Care Fund will have on communities in rural and regional Australia (the _rural and regional impact assessment_); and (b) publish a report of the rural and regional impact assessment on the Department's website. (2) The rural and regional impact assessment must include, for each rural or regional area of each State and Territory of Australia: (a) a statement of the number of child care places that will be available in the area under the Budget Based Funded Program on 1 July 2017, as compared with the number of child care places that will be available under the Community Child Care Fund on 1 July 2018; and (b) an estimate of the number of child care services in the area that will cease to operate during the financial year beginning on 1 July 2017 (if any); and (c) an estimate of the number of child care services that will begin to operate in the area during the financial year beginning on 1 July 2017 (if any); and (d) an assessment of any other impacts that the replacement of the Budget Based Funded Program with the Community Child Care Fund will have on communities in the area. (3) The Minister must, by legisl

House of Representatives, 2017-03-01. negative: ayes 70, noes 73.

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Cathy McGowan I move the amendments circulated in my name: (1) Schedule 4, page 233 (after line 10), after item 235, insert: 235A After section 232 Insert: 232A Community Child Care Fund—guidelines for funding (1) The Secretary must, no later than 1 July 2017, publish on the Department's website guidelines outlining the criteria that will be used in determining how funding will be allocated from the Community Child Care Fund. (2) The Minister must table before each House of the Parliament, on the next sitting day of the House after the guidelines are published under subsection (1), a copy of the guidelines. 232B Community Child Care Fund—assessment of likely impact on rural and regional areas (1) The Secretary must, no later than 1 July 2017: (a) conduct an assessment of the impact that the replacement of the Budget Based Funded Program with the Community Child Care Fund will have on communities in rural and regional Australia (the _rural and regional impact assessment_); and (b) publish a report of the rural and regional impact assessment on the Department's website. (2) The rural and regional impact assessment must include, for each rural or regional area of each State and Territory of Australia: (a) a statement of the number of child care places that will be available in the area under the Budget Based Funded Program on 1 July 2017, as compared with the number of child care places that will be available under the Community Child Care Fund on 1 July 2018; and (b) an estimate of the number of child care services in the area that will cease to operate during the financial year beginning on 1 July 2017 (if any); and (c) an estimate of the number of child care services that will begin to operate in the area during the financial year beginning on 1 July 2017 (if any); and (d) an assessment of any other impacts that the replacement of the Budget Based Funded Program with the Community Child Care Fund will have on communities in the area. (3) The Minister must, by legisl

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