Current consultation
New Aged Care Act Rules consultation – Release 2a – Funding for Support at Home program
Stage 2a release contains the draft Rules for Chapter 4 of the Aged Care Bill 2024. The release focuses on funding related to the new Support at Home program, it covers funding for aged care services under the program, including subsidies, individual contributions and means testing for older people.
Overview of the New Aged Care Act Rules consultation – Release 2 – Funding of aged care services (Chapter 4)
The Stage 2 release will contain the draft Rules for Chapter 4 of the Aged Care Bill 2024. Chapter 4 is about the funding of aged care services, including subsidies, contributions, means testing, accommodation and grants.
New Aged Care Act Rules consultation – Release 1 – Service list
The Stage 1 release for the consultation on the New Aged Care Act Rules contains the service list. The service list outlines the care and services that will be available to older people under the new laws.
Aged Care Bill 2024 – 12 September 2024
See the Aged Care Bill 2024 on the Parliament House website.
About the Aged Care Bill 2024 plain language fact sheet
This plain language fact sheet gives a summary of each chapter of the Aged Care Bill 2024. It also explains the next steps to make the Bill a law.
About the Aged Care Bill 2024 fact sheet – Easy Read
This Easy Read fact sheet gives a summary of each chapter of the Aged Care Bill 2024. It also explains the next steps to make the Bill a law.
Exposure draft consultation resources –
14 December 2023 to 8 March 2024
A new Aged Care Act: exposure draft – Consultation feedback report
This report summarises the feedback received from the new Aged Care Act exposure draft consultation.
A new Aged Care Act: exposure draft – Consultation paper no. 2
This detailed paper guided the public consultation on the draft new Aged Care Act.
A new Aged Care Act: exposure draft – Consultation paper no. 2 summary – Plain English version
This paper is a plain English summary of the detailed consultation paper which guided the public consultation on the draft new Aged Care Act.
Exposure draft – Aged Care Bill 2023
This is an exposure draft of the Bill for the new Aged Care Act that was the focus of a public consultation, which ran from 14 December 2023 to 8 March 2024
A new Aged Care Act – Statement of changes from the exposure draft
This statement sets out the main changes to the Bill for the new Aged Care Act since the exposure draft and foundations consultations.
Webinars
New Aged Care Act Q&A session
This webinar, held on 28 February 2024, was a Q&A session about the draft new Aged Care Act, which was available for consultation until 8 March 2024. The panel answered questions from the audience.
Draft new Aged Care Act consultation – Q&A panel discussion (January 2024)
This webinar, held on 18 January 2024, was an interactive discussion about the final draft of the new Aged Care Act which was available for consultation until 8 March 2024.
New Aged Care Act and Support at Home program update
This webinar, held on 14 December 2023, provided updates on: the development of the new Aged Care Act, a new model for regulating aged care, the strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards, and in-home aged care reforms, including the new Support at Home program. It also included a live Q&A session.
Act foundations consultation resources –
4 August to 8 September 2023
A new Aged Care Act: the foundations – Consultation paper no. 1
This paper guided public consultation on the proposed foundations of the new Aged Care Act, which ran during August and September 2023.
A new Aged Care Act: the foundations – Consultation summary report
This report summarises the feedback received from the new Aged Care Act foundations consultation held in August and September 2023.
Foundations of the new Aged Care Act
This webinar provided information to older people, their families and carers, and the aged care sector on the proposed foundations of the new Aged Care Act. Consultation on these proposed elements ran from August to September 2023.
Statement of expectations
Statement of Expectations to the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission 2024–25
The Statement of Expectations sets out the role for the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission in preparing the sector for the new Aged Care Act.
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