The framework is national. Since the Aged Care Act 2024 began on 1 November 2025, the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission has registered providers into one or more of six categories: home and community services; assistive technology and home modifications; advisory and support services; personal and care support in the home or community; nursing and transition care; and residential care. The Commission's provider register shows each provider's categories, service types and registration period, and your website should describe your registration the same way. Sole traders and partnerships can register as well. An organisation can also work as an associated provider, delivering services on behalf of a registered provider; if that's your arrangement, the site should say so rather than suggest a registration you don't hold.
Worker screening is where NSW has its own process. Aged care workers need either a police certificate no more than three years old that doesn't record certain offences, or an NDIS worker screening check, which in NSW is the NDIS Worker Check, started online and completed at a Service NSW centre. The Commonwealth is working with the states on a national screening check for the care and support sector, so keep your screening line as ordinary text that's quick to change. For a feedback and complaints page, NSW has Seniors Rights Service (opens in a new tab), which gives free aged care advocacy across the state, and the NSW Ageing and Disability Commission, which responds to reports of abuse, neglect and exploitation of older people in family, home and community settings, alongside the national Commission.
The mix of services shifts from one part of Sydney to the next. In Sutherland Shire, 8,047 people used the Commonwealth Home Support Programme during 2024–25, about four for every person holding a Home Care Package at 30 June 2025 (2,058). In Fairfield the two figures were almost level, at 3,733 and 3,754. CHSP grant funding has since been extended to 30 June 2029, two years past the earliest date it had been due to move into Support at Home. A provider in the Shire might open its home page with entry-level help such as domestic assistance, meals, transport and social support; one in Fairfield or Cabramatta might lead with Support at Home and the languages its workers speak.
Hospital referrals follow the health system's map. NSW Health's Out of Hospital Care provider directory, last updated in August 2024, lists Care Connect for the Northern Sydney and South Eastern Sydney local health districts and for St Vincent's, ACNA for Western Sydney and Nepean Blue Mountains, and ACNA again in South Western Sydney through the district's central intake line (Triple I), while Sydney Local Health District runs its own service. South Western Sydney PHN funds six care finder services, including Tharawal Aboriginal Corporation for First Nations communities across the region. If you take referrals from any of them, naming the local health districts your service area falls within puts your coverage in the terms the program itself uses.
We're an Adelaide team at Ste 3/110 Hutt St and work with Sydney providers by phone and email. Our one aged care client, Golden Years Aged Care Support, is in Northern Adelaide rather than Sydney. Among our Sydney clients is a family dispute resolution practice whose site takes bookings and runs a five-step intake form, which is close to the job a referral page does for a care provider.