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In Home Care (IHC), is  a flexible form of child care where the care is provided in the child’s home by an approved carer.  Care is monitored and supported by an approved agency (Service Provider), to ensure quality outcomes for children.

The National In Home Childcare Association Inc (NICA), is the newly established national peak body for the In Home Child Care Program in Australia. In home care is not available to everyone, but limited to families who have no access to existing child care services, and/or their circumstances mean that an existing child care service cannot meet their needs, and where the family meets one or more of the following criteria:

• the child has, or lives with another child who has an illness or a disability;
• the child's guardian (or guardian's partner) has an illness or disability that affects their ability to care for the child;
• the child lives in a rural or remote area;
• the work hours of the child's guardian (or guardian's partner) are hours when no other approved child care service is available;
• the child's guardian (or guardian's partner) is caring for three or more children who have not yet started school.
  

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Contact Information:

Andrea Darley 
In Home Childcare Services Co-ordinator
PO Box 8, Wyong NSW 2259
Phone: 1300 795 401   
Fax: 1300 795 402
Email: nswihc@wyongfdc.asn.au

National In Home Childcare Association
PO Box 270, Taree NSW 2430
Phone: (02) 6552 5088
Fax: (02) 6551 0399
Website: www.nica.org.au