Priority of access

Placements are offered in accordance with the NSW Health Guidelines, Ministerial Directives and Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs Office Priority of Access Guidelines. 

In order to ensure that the centre’s records in relation to the priority of access of families are accurate, routine reviews of parent/guardian employment status with Hunter New England Health will be completed. Once a/both parents/guardians have finished their employment with Hunter New England Health the centre should be notified and an eight-week period to find alternative child care is allowed.

Siblings of enrolled children are also given priority within the above groups so that families may have all their child care needs met by the one provider, where possible.

1. Clinical staff on-site (i.e. John Hunter and Rankin Park Hospitals, HNE Health Headquarters)
2. Clinical staff off-site (i.e. all other HNE Health facilities)
3. Non-clinical staff on-site (i.e. John Hunter and Rankin Park Hospitals, HNE Health Headquarters)
4. Non-clinical staff off-site (i.e. all other HNE Health facilities)
5. Staff employed by other Area Health Services and other Health System Services
6. Community placements

Within each of these priorities the following FACSIA prioritised groups will be provided for:

1. Children at risk of serious abuse or neglect
2. Child of a single parent who satisfies, or of both parents who both satisfy, the work/training/study test under section 14 of the A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999
3. Any other child