CHC50221 Diploma of School Age Education and Care

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for CHC50221 ended on 21 December 2025 — 8 months ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

Transition clockOpen for new enrolments

New enrolments are not permitted from 23 December 2026 — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register (s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National VET Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR RTOs and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355, in force 1 July 2025)), or from a later date if ASQA has approved otherwise for your organisation.

Learners already enrolled have no fixed deadline: they complete the product and are issued their AQF certification, or transfer to the replacement, in a timely manner (ASQA guidance, read live 25 August 2026).

The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. When enrolments stop, the course page advertising it stops being permitted too — and if ASQA approves a later enrolment date, that moves with it.

Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule

Product type
Qualification
Training package
CHC — Community Services
Currency period ends
21 December 2025
Latest release
Release 1 · 20 July 2021
Supersedes
CHC50213
Superseded by
CHC50225 equivalent

Where the register points next

Each step below is one supersession training.gov.au publishes between two products. The label on the rail is the equivalence the register declares for that step — not our reading of it.

  1. CHC50221Superseded — equivalentDiploma of School Age Education and Care
  2. equivalent
  3. CHC50225CurrentDiploma of School Age Education and Care

What the register says changed

These are the mapping notes training.gov.au attaches to each supersession, quoted as the register writes them. They are the only public record of what actually changed between two versions.

  • CHC50213CHC50221not equivalent19 July 2021

    Major changes to the Qualification structure and core and elective units to reflect sector requirements.

  • CHC50221CHC50225equivalent22 December 2025

    Major change to replace CHCPRT001 Identify and respond to children and young people at risk with CHCPRT025 Identify and report children and young people at risk in the core.

Is CHC50221 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether CHC50221 sits on your own scope today, or what else on that scope has moved without anyone noticing. Enter your RTO number and we read every product on your live scope against training.gov.au and tell you which ones are superseded and which replacements the register flags not equivalent.

Public code, nothing else. We read your live scope from training.gov.au and answer here — nothing is stored unless you ask us to watch it.

Whether a supersession requires anything of you, and what, sits with you and your regulator. This page maps what the register records; it does not make that judgement. If the difference between an equivalent and a non-equivalent replacement is the question, we wrote it up in equivalent vs not equivalent.

What CHC50221 is made of

training.gov.au lists 31 units for CHC50221: 15 core and 16 elective. To complete it, the register publishes a rule of 15 core units plus 8 electives23 units in all.

Core units 15 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
BSBLDR523Lead and manage effective workplace relationshipscurrent
CHCCCS007Develop and implement service programscurrent
CHCDIV002Promote Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander cultural safetycurrent
CHCDIV003Manage and promote diversitycurrent
CHCLEG003Manage legal and ethical compliancecurrent
CHCPRP003Reflect on and improve own professional practicecurrent
CHCPRT001Identify and respond to children and young people at risknot current
CHCSAC006Support children to participate in school age carecurrent
CHCSAC007Develop and implement play and leisure experiences in school age carecurrent
CHCSAC008Work collaboratively and respectfully with school age childrencurrent
CHCSAC010Foster holistic learning, development and wellbeing for school age childrencurrent
HLTAID012Provide First Aid in an education and care settingcurrent
HLTFSE007Oversee the day-to-day implementation of food safety in the workplacecurrent
HLTWHS003Maintain work health and safetycurrent
SISXDIS001Facilitate inclusion for people with a disabilitynot current

Elective units 16 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
BSBHRM413Support the learning and development of teams and individualscurrent
BSBOPS502Manage business operational planscurrent
BSBPEF502Develop and use emotional intelligencecurrent
BSBSUS511Develop workplace policies and procedures for sustainabilitycurrent
CHCCOM002Use communication to build relationshipscurrent
CHCDIS006Develop and promote positive person-centred behaviour supportsnot current
CHCDIS007Facilitate the empowerment of people with disability not current
CHCDIS009Facilitate ongoing skills development using a person-centred approachnot current
CHCFAM002Work with a child-focused approachcurrent
CHCMGT007Work effectively with the Board of an organisationcurrent
CHCPOL002Develop and implement policycurrent
CHCPOL003Research and apply evidence to practicecurrent
CHCPRP001Develop and maintain networks and collaborative partnershipscurrent
HLTFSE001Follow basic food safety practicescurrent
SISXCAI007Assist with activities not requiring equipmentnot current
SISXEMR002Coordinate emergency responsesnot current

Core and elective are the register's own flags on the unit grid of the release read here. "Not current" means training.gov.au no longer recommends that unit for use inside this product — it does not say anything about the product itself.

Source: this product on training.gov.au, Australia's national training register — or go straight to the units it requires. The rule itself is item 14 of F2025L00355, and ASQA publishes the extensions it has granted. Read on 28 August 2026 UTC. Every code, title, date, status and equivalence flag on this page is the register's; nothing here is estimated or inferred, and where the register publishes nothing we say so.

Every CHC training product on the register · Search all training products

Is CHC50221 still on your scope? Type your RTO code and get the free breakdown — every superseded product on your live scope, and whether the register flags each replacement equivalent.

No account, no card. We never ask for anything about your learners. Your address gets this one report — no list, no marketing — and the scope watch only if you tick the box, with one click to stop it.