Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2020C00834:reg:10
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2020C00834
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 10
Character Range: 74157–79843

10  Special care needs
    Child receives all food and fluids by nasogastric or gastrostomy tube or percutaneous enterogastric tube (PEG)                                                                                                                                             M‑10a
    Child has a tracheostomy                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   M‑10b1
    Child requires a ventilator to support respiration.                                                                                                                                                                                                        M‑10b2
    Child requires regular oxygen therapy at home.                                                                                                                                                                                                             M‑10b3
    Child requires a CPAP or BiPAP machine.                                                                                                                                                                                                                    M‑10b4
    Child is aged over 4 years and is incontinent both day and night                                                                                                                                                                                           M‑10c
    Child is aged over 3 years and cannot stand without support                                                                                                                                                                                                M‑10d
    Child requires a wheelchair and requires assistance to propel the wheelchair                                                                                                                                                                               M‑10e
    Child requires a wheelchair, quad sticks, prosthesis, crutches or walking frame but can move around with little assistance using the equipment                                                                                                             M‑10f
    Child uses an electric wheelchair                                                                                                                                                                                                                          M‑10g
    Child requires urinary catheterisation several times each day                                                                                                                                                                                              M‑10h
    Child requires specialised equipment, prosthesis or technology to communicate, for example a computerised communicator, telephone typewriter (TTY), voice synthesiser, cochlear implant, hearing aids or adaptations to a standard computer                M‑10i
    Child is over the age of 5 years and has persistent difficulties with memory, concentration, planning and organisation                                                                                                                                     M‑10j
    Child has chronic and progressive suppurative lung disease for which ongoing daily airway clearance is provided or enzyme replacement therapy and nutritional supplements are required and provided on a daily basis                                       M‑10k
    Child is receiving a course of chemotherapy or radiotherapy treatment for cancer                                                                                                                                                                           M‑10l
    The child has poorly controlled seizures which frequently require emergency medication or first aid?                                                                                                                                                       M‑10m
    Child is assisted on a daily basis with at least 2 blood tests to measure blood glucose levels, injections and special dietary management and the child is not capable of determining medication levels, food intake or self administration of medication  M‑10n
    Child has a severe eating disorder such as anorexia nervosa or bulimia.                                                                                                                                                                                    M‑10o

       Schedule 2—Rating Methods

       Part 1 Scoring for ACL questionnaire

    Step 1  Terminal phase [Note: this Step 1 only relates to Carer Payment.]

         No further steps need to be taken in the assessment of care load, if a medical practitioner has certified that:
           (a) a child has a terminal condition; and
           (b) the average life expectancy for a child with the same or similar condition is not substantially longer than 24 months.

    Step 2  Domain A score

        (1) Calculate a score for each question in domain A of the ACL questionnaire as follows:
           (a) locate the value in column 3 of the following table that corresponds to the answer code for the question in column 2;
           (b) copy this value into column 4 of the table.

        (2) Calculate the total score for domain A by adding the scores in column 4 of the table.

    Domain A – Behaviour

Question number  Answer code  Value     Score