Support for Families
CSEF- Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund
The CSEF is an annual payment to the school to be used towards camps, sports and/or excursion expenses for the benefit of the eligible student.
To be eligible: a parent or legal guardian of a student attending a Secondary school must:
Hold a Veterans Affairs Gold Card or be an eligible Centrelink Health Care Card (HCC OR Pensioner Concession Card (PCC) holder OR
Be a temporary Foster Parent and:
Submit an application to the school by the due date
Payment Amounts:
Secondary School students $400 per year
The CSEF is paid directly to your child’s school and will be allocated by the school towards camps, sports and/or excursion costs for you child.
The school will require a copy of your current Health Care Card, Pensioner Concession Card or Veteran Affairs Gold Card. Forms are available from the General Office. Applications close on the 26th June 2026.
Easing into Adolescents: Resources for Families
Free resources for families of adolescents aged 10 to 14 years. The Department of Education has launched an Easing into adolescence webpage for families of students aged 10 to 14 (Grade 5 to Year 8).
The webpage has information and strategies you can use to help ease your child into adolescence and secondary school. These include:
a guide to emotion coaching. Staff from The University of Melbourne’s Tuning in to Teens Kids program developed the guidance.
how to support your adolescent with their studies and more generally. Parenting expert and clinical psychologist Andrew Fuller helped develop this resource.
Subtitles for videos by The University of Melbourne on the webpage are available in 10 languages. You can select your preferred language on the translations page.
For questions about these resources, contact the Strategic Partnerships, Transitions and Student Voice team.
You can email them at Secondary.School.Transition@education.vic.gov.au.
Access the information by using the following link https://www.vic.gov.au/easing-adolescence-resources-families