Children and Family Intensive Support Grant Opportunity Guidelines Opening date: 11 June 2021 Closing date and time: 9:00 PM AEST on 16 July 2021 Commonwealth policy Department of Social Services entity: Administering entities: Community Grants Hub Enquiries: If you have any questions, contact Community Grants Hub Phone: 1800 020 283 (option 1) Email: [email protected] Questions should be sent no later than 5:00 PM AEST on 9 July 2021 Date guidelines released: 11 June 2021 Type of grant opportunity: Targeted competitive Version: 5 May 2021 Contents 1. Children and Family Intensive Support processes ................................................................. 4 1.1 Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 6 2. About Children and Family Intensive Support......................................................................... 6 2.1 About the Children and Family Intensive Support grant opportunity ............................... 6 3. Grant amount and grant period ................................................................................................. 8 3.1 Grants available ............................................................................................................... 8 3.2 Grant period ..................................................................................................................... 9 4. Eligibility criteria ......................................................................................................................... 9 4.1 Who is eligible to apply for a grant? ................................................................................. 9 4.2 Who is not eligible to apply for a grant?.........................................................................12 4.3 What qualifications, skills or checks are required? ........................................................12 5. What the grant money can be used for ..................................................................................13 5.1 Eligible grant activities ...................................................................................................13 5.2 Eligible locations ............................................................................................................15 5.3 Eligible expenditure ........................................................................................................17 5.4 What the grant money cannot be used for.....................................................................17 6. The assessment criteria ...........................................................................................................18 7. How to apply ..............................................................................................................................20 7.1 Attachments to the application .......................................................................................21 7.2 Joint (consortia) applications .........................................................................................22 7.3 Timing of grant opportunity processes ...........................................................................22 7.4 Questions during the application process ......................................................................23 8. The grant selection process ....................................................................................................23 8.1 Assessment of grant applications ..................................................................................23 8.2 Financial viability ............................................................................................................24 8.3 Who will assess and select applications? ......................................................................24 8.4 Who will approve grants? ..............................................................................................25 9. Notification of application outcomes ......................................................................................25 9.1 Feedback on your application ........................................................................................25 10. Successful grant applications .................................................................................................26 10.1 The grant agreement .....................................................................................................26 10.2 Commonwealth Child Safe Framework .........................................................................26 10.3 Specific legislation, policies and industry standards ......................................................27 10.4 Multicultural access and equity ......................................................................................27 10.5 How we pay the grant ....................................................................................................27 10.6 Grant payments and GST ..............................................................................................27 11. Announcement of grants .........................................................................................................28 Children and Family Intensive Support Guidelines June 2021 Page 2 of 36 12. How we monitor your grant activity ........................................................................................28 12.1 Keeping us informed ......................................................................................................28 12.2 Reporting .......................................................................................................................28 12.3 Financial declaration ......................................................................................................29 12.4 Grant agreement variations ...........................................................................................29 12.5 Compliance visits ...........................................................................................................30 12.6 Record keeping ..............................................................................................................30 12.7 Evaluation ......................................................................................................................30 12.8 Acknowledgement ..........................................................................................................30 13. Probity ........................................................................................................................................30 13.1 Enquiries and feedback .................................................................................................30 13.2 Conflicts of interest ........................................................................................................31 13.3 Privacy ...........................................................................................................................31 13.4 Confidential information .................................................................................................32 13.5 Freedom of information ..................................................................................................33 14. Glossary .....................................................................................................................................34 Children and Family Intensive Support Guidelines June 2021 Page 3 of 36 1. Children and Family Intensive Support processes Children and Family Intensive Support is designed to achieve Australian Government objectives This grant opportunity contributes to the Department of Social Services’ Outcome 2: Families and Communities. The Department of Social Services works with stakeholders to plan and design the grant program according to the Commonwealth Grants Rules and Guidelines 2017 (CGRGs). The grant opportunity opens We publish the grant guidelines on the GrantConnect and Community Grants Hub websites. You complete and submit a grant application You complete the application form and address all of the eligibility and assessment criteria to be considered for a grant. We assess all grant applications We assess the applications against eligibility criteria and notify you if you are not eligible. If you are eligible, we then assess your eligible application against the assessment criteria including an overall consideration of value with money and compare it to other applications. We make grant recommendations We provide advice, through the Selection Advisory Panel, to the decision maker on the merits of each application. Grant decisions are made The decision maker decides which applications are successful. We notify you of the outcome We advise you of the outcome of your application. We may not notify unsuccessful applicants until grant agreements have been executed with successful applicants. We enter into a grant agreement We enter into a grant agreement with you if you are successful and legislative authority is established for this program. The type of grant agreement is based on the nature or complexity of the grant and is proportional to the risks involved. Delivery of grant You undertake the grant activity as set out in your grant agreement. We manage the grant by working with you, monitoring your progress and making payments. Children and Family Intensive Support Guidelines June 2021 Page 4 of 36 Evaluation of Children and Family Intensive Support We evaluate