CHCCS504B Provide services to clients with complex needs

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for CHCCS504B ended on 4 August 2015 — 11 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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For an RTO registered by ASQA, new enrolments are not permitted today, unless ASQA has approved otherwise — for your organisation, for a class of RTOs, or for all RTOs. The one-year point this rule counts from — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register — fell earlier, on 6 August 2016. That date is arithmetic, not a day on which this instrument prohibited anything: s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR Registered Training Organisations and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355) commenced on 1 July 2025 and imposes nothing before then. RTOs registered by VRQA in Victoria or by the TAC in Western Australia are not covered by it.

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).

A second obligation follows from the same fact: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. For an RTO registered by ASQA, new enrolments in this product are not permitted today, so a course page advertising it is not permitted either — and if ASQA approves a later enrolment date, that moves with it.

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For an ASQA-registered RTO that does not already hold it, adding CHCCCS004 to scope is a change-of-scope application to ASQA, with a fee set by law: A$200 application fee + A$1,100 assessment fee per application (up to 5 VET courses and 50 units of competency). RTOs registered by a state regulator, and ASQA delegates, sit under other arrangements. Source: NVR Fees Determination 2026, F2026L00814, from 1 July 2026 · read 5 September 2026.

Product type
Unit of competency
Training package
CHC08 — Community Services Training Package
Currency period ends
4 August 2015
Latest release
Release 1 · 7 May 2012
Supersedes
CHCCS504A
Superseded by
CHCCCS004 not 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. CHCCS504BSuperseded — not equivalentProvide services to clients with complex needs
  2. not equivalent
  3. CHCCCS004CurrentAssess co-existing needs

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.

  • CHCCS504ACHCCS504Bequivalent6 May 2012

    ISC upgrade changes to remove references to old OHS legislation and replace with references to new WHS legislation. Updated terminology 'challenging behaviour' to 'behaviours of concern'.

  • CHCCS504BCHCCCS004not equivalent5 August 2015

    Merged CHCCS416B/CHCCS500B/CHCCS504B. Significant change to the elements and performance criteria. New evidence requirements for assessment including volume and frequency requirements. Significant changes to knowledge evidence.

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for CHCCS504B and for its training package CHC08 (release 4.2), with the name and date the register publishes for each file. We link them; we have not read them, and nothing on this page is taken from their contents.

  • CHCCS504B_R1.pdfCHCCS504B release 1 · product document · published 20 July 2012
  • CHCCS504B_R1.docxCHCCS504B release 1 · product document · published 26 November 2024

Is CHCCS504B on your scope?

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Where CHCCS504B is used

training.gov.au lists CHCCS504B inside 17 training products, none of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for CHCCS504B in that product.

Products no longer current 17 listed

The register still records CHCCS504B inside these, but it no longer recommends them as current. They are here because a scope history or an old enrolment can still point at them.

CodeTraining productTypeCHCCS504B is
CHC40412Certificate IV in Alcohol and Other DrugsQualificationelective
CHC40512Certificate IV in Mental HealthQualificationelective
CHC40912Certificate IV in Social HousingQualificationelective
CHC41912Certificate IV in Youth JusticeQualificationelective
CHC50212Diploma of Community Services (Alcohol and other drugs)Qualificationelective
CHC50312Diploma of Community Services (Mental health)Qualificationelective
CHC50313Diploma of Child, Youth and Family InterventionQualificationcore
CHC50412Diploma of Community Services (Alcohol, other drugs and mental health)Qualificationelective
CHC50513Diploma of Youth JusticeQualificationelective
CHC50812Diploma of Social HousingQualificationelective
Show the remaining 7 products no longer current
CodeTraining productTypeCHCCS504B is
CHC51408Diploma of Youth WorkQualificationelective
CHCSS00028Homelessness support work skill setSkill setelective
CHCSS00054Social housing work skill setSkill setelective
HLT40113Certificate IV in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health CareQualificationelective
HLT40213Certificate IV in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care PracticeQualificationelective
HLT50113Diploma of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health CareQualificationelective
HLT50213Diploma of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care PracticeQualificationelective

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 14 October 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.

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