The 2025-2026 Fees and Charges adopted by Council at the June 2025 meeting included casual booking fees for Greater Hume Children Services Out of School Hours Care (OSHC), since the fees and charges have been adopted a permanent booking fee category has been identified as being omitted.
A recommendation has been made to consolidate the casual and permanent booking fees to one standard fee. The benefits of applying one standard fee will be a reduction in administration, more accuracy in budgeting and reporting, and clarity of fees for families using the service.
Despite the adopted fee the practice has been to charge a reduced fee (the permanent fee) for regular users of the service, most families fit this category and the changes to fees and charges formalise the existing practice arrangement.
The proposed fee structure would abolish the existing 2025 – 2026 fees which were recently adopted and would replace them with a reduced fee as outlined below:
- After School Care – up to 3 hours of care - changing from $36.47 to $31.20
- Before School Care – up to 2 hours of care - changing from $31.26 to $26.00
- Vacation Care – per day - changing from $93.78 to $88.40
This is available for comment until 14 August 2025.
Any submissions made in relation to the exhibition must be in writing and be received by 5.00pm on 14 August 2025. You can either complete the Have Your Say Form below or write to Council, PO Box 99 Holbrook NSW 2644, or email mail@ greaterhume.nsw.gov.au.
All submissions will be considered to be a public document unless privacy is expressly requested.