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The Department of Health and Aged Care have released the Support At Home and new Aged Care Act Transition Support 2024-2025 Grant Opportunity.

• GO7421
• Information Technology Systems
• Closes 25 February 2025
• See grant details here

As part of the Australian Government’s reform of the aged care system, the Support at Home (SaH) program will replace the Home Care Packages Program (HCP) from 1 July 2025. HCP providers will require changes to their IT systems to meet new obligations for claiming payments for services delivered and reporting under the SaH program and the Aged Care Act 2024.

To align the Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) with the new Aged Care Act 2024, changes to CHSP reporting requirements will be implemented from 1 July 2025 to reflect new legislative requirements ahead of the CHSP transitioning into the SaH program no earlier than 1 July 2027. CHSP providers will require changes to their IT systems to meet their new CHSP reporting obligations.

This grant opportunity will be open to HCP and CHSP providers, providing one-off funding of $10,000 in the 2024-25 financial year towards the cost of IT system upgrades to meet the obligations under SaH, the CHSP and the Aged Care Act 2024.

Applications can only be accepted from the below aged care provider types:

• existing approved providers of HCP (must provide your current aged care Approved Provider ID, which you may also know as your NAPS ID or GMPS ID).
• existing CHSP providers who have an executed grant agreement with the Commonwealth, as represented by the Department of Health and Aged Care, to deliver CHSP services that is due to expire on 30 June 2025 (must provide your current CHSP funding agreement ID).

What the grant money can be used for

Eligible grant activities

To be eligible, you must use the grant funding to update your IT systems to meet the new arrangements under the Support At Home Program, new Aged Care Act and / or the CHSP from 1 July 2025.

This includes:

• paying a vendor to make the required IT system changes, or
• payment of wages to internal IT staff for their time to make the changes, and / or
• payment of wages to internal staff for training related to the IT system changes.