How to Apply for ISS
Inclusion Support Facilitators will assist child care services to develop a Service Support Plan.
The development of a SSP is based on the use of reflective questioning and uses the following steps:
- identify the client's/service's need through the use of reflective questioning:
- the key to reflective questioning is the focus on identification of the service's needs in relation to gaining knowledge and skills that will support them to provide a quality child care environment that supports access and participation of all children in their care;
- support reflection, recognition and respectful acknowledgment of the steps the service has already implemented;
- support the recognition and use of inherent skills;
- enable discussion and identification of the range of resources (both internal and external) that are available to support the service to utilise and build on their current capacity to address their need and meet their goal/s;
- facilitate identification of a plan of action that will support the service to access these resources to meet their goal/s.
Where a Service Support Plan has identified that additional supports are required, an Inclusion Support Subsidy Application Form should be completed, along with the Service Support Plan.
