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Before and After School Care Fees
There is a charge for each child attending the care session and the service can be used on a routine/permanent or casual basis. Current rates are shown in the table below.
| Before and After School Care session fees - 2025 | ||
| Before School Care - South BSC 6.00am - 9.00am | After School care - South, East, West, MAGS & St Laurence's Pick up by 6.00pm | |
| Routine/Permanent care | $40.15 per child | $34.45 per child |
| Casual care | $45.50 per child | $40.00 per child |
| Vacation Care session fees - 2025 | ||
| Vacation Care - Early Bird | $78.30 per child / per day | |
| Vacation Care - Daily rate | $83.50 per child / per day | |
| Additional Fees and Charges | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enrolment fee (non-refundable) | This is an annual enrolment registration fee payable upon submission of the enrolment form: | |||
| 2025 Early bird Re-enrolment fee: Enrol on or before 2/12/2024 | Standard enrolment fee | |||
| $30 for 1 child | $40.00 for 1 child | |||
| $35 for 2 children | $45.00 for 2 children | |||
| $40 for 3+ children | $50.00 for 3 children | |||
| Casual care late notification of cancellation charge. | If you cancel a casual care booking with less than 24 hours' notice or fail to notify that your child will be absent, you will be charged the full session fee. | |||
| Vacation care change of booking fee | Bookings for vacation care need to be made separately for each vacation care period. Any changes to vacation care booking dates will incur a $20 fee (per family) each time a booking change is requested in any one vacation care period. | |||
| Late collection / pick up fee (after 6pm) | $15 per 15 minutes (minimum charge of $15). Applied after 6pm for all services. | |||
| Location fee / Failure to notify of absence fee (ASC only) | $15 per occurrence if you fail to notify the service that your child will be absent and phone calls need to be made to locate your child. | |||
| Debt recovery cost | Failure to pay fees on time may result in recovery costs including administration fees, debt recovery fees, solicitor fees and disbursement incurred by DNC being added to the overdue account. | |||
| Drink bottle: $12.00 Hat: $15.00 | If your child forgets to bring their water bottle or hat, one will be supplied and the cost will be added to your account. | |||
Dubbo Neighbourhood Centre is an approved Outside of School Hours Care Service. Childcare subsidy is available through the Families Assistance Office (Centrelink) for families that meet the criteria. To claim the subsidy, families must agree to the 'Complying Written Arrangement' through our software provider Xplor, and complete the activity test and confirm your child's enrolment through MyGov.
Xplor Home
Xplor Home is our software provider and digital platform. Upon enrolment (see below) Xplor will send you an email for setting up your login details. Xplor Home is a free app that can be downloaded onto your phone for convenient access to accounts, attendance and bookings.
Enrolment
All children must be enrolled with the Dubbo Neighbourhood Centre and receive a Confirmation of enrolment before they can attend. All information in the enrolment form must be provided before the enrolment is completed. Parents must inform our service of any changes to enrolment information.
Before enrolling, please read the Outside School Hours Care Family Handbook (under Downloads heading below).
If you require help completing the enrolment form please contact our office to arrange a phone or in person appointment.
If you would like any further information, please call our office on 02 6883 2300; email oosh@dnc.org.au or arrange a time to come into the office at Dubbo Neighbourhood Centre: 31-33 Church Street, Dubbo.
Request an Enrolment Form link
Please email the below details to oosh@dnc.org.au to request an Enrolment Form link:
Primary Carer/Account Holder:
(this is the parent/carer who will be registered for the Child Care Subsidy if applicable):
- Primary Carer Full name
- DOB
- Centrelink CRN
- Gender
- Mobile
- Email
Child
- Child Full name
- DOB
- Centrelink CRN
- Gender
- School they attend
- School year/grade
- Care type: After School Care, Before School Care and/or vacation care
- Requested day/s: e.g. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays weekly; or casual (book as needed only)
- Date of first day of care requesting
Downloads
