Local service · NSW
Occasional Care Cottage
Short-term, temporary or emergency care from one to seven hours per day.
Published information checked 25 October 2026 · Not confirmed for any requested date
A published casual-care route is a lead to check. Ask the provider to confirm your actual date, local times, exact age eligibility, enrolment and payment steps. This profile does not reserve a place.
Care is limited to seven hours per child per day, even though the opening-hours envelope is longer. The date screen checks this published duration limit as well as the opening hours.
What is published?
- Service type
- Local service
- Operator / brand
- Orange City Council
- Locality
- Orange
- Published service area
- 85 Kite Street, Orange CBD.
- Coverage conditions
- One centre in Orange; no broader service area is inferred.
- Care offered
- Occasional care
- Exact published ages
- Children aged between six weeks and five years.
- Booking routes
- Phone / email enquiry
- Before the first booking
- Contact the centre for the booking and new-family process. The page does not specify enrolment turnaround. A child may receive at most seven hours a day.
- Published care hours
- Monday–Friday 08:30–16:30 opening envelope; each child's care is limited to seven hours daily.
- Calendar and session limits
- Confirm public holidays, term operation and other closures; the page does not provide a closure calendar.
- Notice / lead time
- Short-notice bookings are advertised; no minimum notice is stated.
- Fee information · AUD
- Council lists AUD 12/hour for CCS-eligible families and AUD 10/hour for proven non-eligible families; ask how the rate and any subsidy apply. A separate Starting Blocks record inspected 25 October 2026 lists a usual hourly fee of $14 before CCS. This differs from the council page; ask for the actual current fee.
- Cancellation / absence terms
- Not established in the reviewed information; ask the provider.
- Published subsidy statement
- Council publishes different hourly rates by CCS eligibility; this does not verify any family's subsidy.
- Exact-date status
- Not confirmed for any requested date
- Registration / current rating
- Not independently checked
Prepare the exact-date enquiry
Use the directory to add a date and times and prepare a request draft. Date details stay on that page and are cleared when you navigate away.
Set a date on the directory →Check the current service record and the applicable regulatory route. No listing-specific approval, safety, quality or individual check is verified by this directory.
ACECQA national registers ↗Evidence and sources
Council advertises occasional care and short-notice bookings.
Why these tags and hours appear
- NSW — Orange site appears in Orange City Council's official NSW service listing. Source ↗
- Occasional care — Council describes temporary, emergency and short-term occasional childcare. Source ↗
- Babies — Advertised care range runs from six weeks through five years. Source ↗
- Toddlers — Advertised care range runs from six weeks through five years. Source ↗
- Preschool — Advertised care range runs from six weeks through five years. Source ↗
- Phone / email enquiry — The service page supplies the centre phone and an enquiry form. Source ↗
- Mon · Tue · Wed · Thu · Fri 08:30–16:30 — Opening envelope only. Published individual-care limit is seven hours per day. Source ↗
- Occasional Care — Orange City Council ↗Full page text opened; relevant sections inspected · checked 2026-10-25
- Starting Blocks: Orange Occasional Care fee reference ↗Government directory page opened; fee cross-check only · checked 2026-10-25