Management
Support for Management Committees
Is your service community based? Sometimes, management committees of children’s services require support and assistance. Whether you are the director or Authorised Supervisor of a children’s service with concerns about recruiting management committee members or a member of a committee wondering how your committee can get the support it needs, Community Child Care is here to help you. Below are a number of the supports we can offer you to help make the task of managing a community based children’s service easier.
Management committee training
Community Child Care Co-operative offers specific management committee training for community-based children’s services.
Specific topics covered include:
- Roles and responsibilities
- Legal responsibilities
- Staffing responsibilities
- Governance structure and policies and procedures
- Financial management and reporting
- Strategic planning
- Risk management.
This training is offered in two ways:
- Via webinar through Children’s Services Central: Webinars are two hour courses conducted via internet and phone with a skilled trainer facilitating the session. They are conducted after work hours to allow Management Committee members to participate. As these webinars are funded by the Commonwealth government they only cost $33 to participate in.
To book into a webinar, go to the Children’s Services Central e-booking site.
- At your centre: Community Child Care can send a trainer to your centre to run a specific three hour training session for your management committee. As this is unfunded this is offered on a fee for service basis.
To book training at your centre please email amydorahy@ccccnsw.org.au or call Amy Dorahy on 8922 6424.
So Now You Are On The Committee book
So Now You Are On The Committee – a handbook for committee members of children’s services. This book is the comprehensive guide to being on a management committee of a children’s service. A copy is provided free to those attending Management Committee training and to services receiving individual management committee support.
So Now You Are On The Committee outlines what a management committee actually does, providing an easy-to-read guide for all those wishing to join a committee, or for those already acting in the role. It’s a must-read for management committees and a handy reference for directors, childcare staff and students.
This book is the comprehensive guide to being on a management committee of a children’s service. A copy is provided free to those attending Management Committee training and to services receiving individual management committee support. A copy of the book can be purchased from Community Child Care – please download the So Now You Are On The Committee order form.
Management Committee Health Check up tool
The Health Check Up is a free tool which can be obtained by completing the online form below. After completion, you will be directed to the Management Committee Health Check up tool, where you can download the documents.
Please complete the online form below and click on the ‘Send Your Details’ button.
Individual management committee support
Has everything really gone pear shaped? Are you having problems recruiting committee members or has your committee stopped functioning as well as it could? Individual Management Committee Support may be what you need.
Individual Management Committee support is support provided to your service to help you deal with your specific issues. The support may be offered via phone email or a visit, and will be offered by a consultant with expertise in the issues facing children’s services management committees.
This support, provided through Children’s Services Central is funded by the Commonwealth Government for Australian Government Approved Child Care Services such as long day care services and occasional care services. For these services a nominal fee of between $33 to $110 is charged for up to 10 hours of support.
Preschools can also access this support. Preschools who are members of Community Child Care Co-operative can access up to three hours free support with additional support available on a fee for service basis.
To inquire about your eligibility for individual management committee support please email saraandersson@ccccnsw.org.au or call Sara Andersson on 8922 6444.
Children’s Services Community Management
Children’s Services Community Management was established to assist small stand-alone children’s services whose committees either need, or want help. Children’s Services Community Management is a specialised organisation with the specific objective of assisting individual services in maintaining community ownership, increasing the level of professionalism and improving the effectiveness and performance of community based child care operations across Australia.
Offering a mix of short term consultancy support to ongoing long term management and transitional support for a transfer of the service licence, Children’s Services Community Management was established to assist management committees to strike the balance between sustainability and delivering high quality children’s services.
The sort of short term assistance Children’s Services Community Management offers children’s services include support to overcome specific challenges, undertake project management, or provide management advice. For services that require a more comprehensive management solution, Children’s Services Community Management can take over the management functions of the existing management committee or board. This includes access to all required policy and procedure documentation, centre payroll and accounts payable management, budget and new purchase management supporting and mentoring staff, general human resource management, funding applications, centre marketing and advertising.
