The Child Care Services scheme (CCS Scheme) has been developed by OneMusic for early childhood services such as Centre-based Care, Family Day Care, Pre-School, Kindergartens and Outside School Hours Care using music, books, and art to entertain and engage children.
This Rate Setting Guide describes how OneMusic Australia sets the rates under the CCS Scheme. For more information about how OneMusic Australia fixes rates and determines rate structures more generally, please see the Rate Setting Guide - General Background available HERE.
This scheme provides coverage for the use of OneMusic Australia’s music in Music for Child Care and for the use of Literary Works (where OneMusic acts as agent for the Copyright Agency Ltd).
Music for Child Care means the use of music in a child care service, including:
Literary Works means the use of a Reasonable Portion of words and text from books, poems, plays and other literary works whose rights are controlled by the Copyright Agency in Australia in, and for the purposes of, a child care service. A Reasonable Portion is defined as 10% of a whole work of more than ten pages, or one chapter of a work that is divided into chapters.
Rate Structure:
The rate structure for Music for Child Care and Literary Works is an amount per Licensed Place depending on the type of child care service. OneMusic categorises the child care service as one of three types: Long Day Child Care Service, Restricted Hours Child Care Service or Vacation Child Care Service.
Long Day Child Care Service means any child care service that is not exclusively a Restricted Hours Child Care Service or a Vacation Child Care Service.
Restricted Hours Child Care Service means a child care service that only provides services for a maximum of 5.5 hours a day.
Vacation Child Care Service means a child care service that only provides services during gazetted school holidays in the relevant State or Territory.
Licensed Places means the maximum number of children who can be educated and cared for at the child care service at any one time, as stated on the Service’s ‘service approval’.
Rate:
Initially there was only one rate under the scheme, which applied to all child care services. This rate was negotiated in a commercial negotiation with Early Childhood Australia, which is the peak industry body, in 2014 – 2015. In 2020 on a unilateral basis (but as a result of informal comments OneMusic was receiving from child care services) OneMusic introduced the concessional rates for vacation and restricted hours child care services to acknowledge the different types of operations in this industry.
