Where a child’s care is kept
Each child’s care is saved on their own page in the Nest, under Care + school: the type of care, the daily fee, which days they go, the session times, and the centre’s name and email. Picking the days works out the days a fortnight for you; if the fortnight is different each week, you can type its number instead. Add the session times as the centre books them (such as 7:00am to 6:00pm) and the hours a day are worked out for the Child Care Subsidy. The days show on your calendar with those times. If a child has not started yet, add their first day: Home tells you when it is near, and the childcare fee in your cash flow forecast starts from it. Siblings can be at different centres, so each child has their own. If you saved a centre on the Child Care Subsidy page, you can choose it there to fill the details in. The child keeps their own copy, so changing the saved centre later does not change the child.
Choosing Not in care clears the fee, days, first day and centre, so no absence count or reminder keeps going for a child who has left care.
Logging an absence
On the absence tracker, choose Log an absence, pick the child, the date and the reason, and save. If the centre’s email is saved, you get Open email: your email app opens with a short note to the centre already written. If it is not saved yet, type it in right there and choose Save and open email. It is kept for next time.
Seeing the count
The tracker shows each child’s days used and left. The same count shows on the child’s Nest page and on the Child Care Subsidy page, for children in paid care only. When a child gets close to 42, NestWise reminds you.