CHCCSL501A Work within a structured counselling framework

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for CHCCSL501A ended on 6 December 2015 — 10 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

Transition clockClosed to new enrolments

New enrolments are not permitted from 8 December 2016 — 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The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted.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.

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Product type
Unit of competency
Training package
CHC08 — Community Services Training Package
Currency period ends
6 December 2015
Latest release
Release 1 · 25 March 2011
Supersedes
CHCCSL601A
Superseded by
CHCCSL001 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. CHCCSL501ASuperseded — not equivalentWork within a structured counselling framework
  2. not equivalent
  3. CHCCSL001CurrentEstablish and confirm the counselling relationship

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.

  • CHCCSL601ACHCCSL501Anot equivalent24 March 2011

    Moderate change to competency outcome

  • CHCCSL501ACHCCSL001not equivalent7 December 2015

    Significant changes to the elements and performance criteria. New evidence requirements for assessment including volume and frequency requirements. Significant change to knowledge evidence. Additional assessor requirements.

Is CHCCSL501A on your scope?

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Where CHCCSL501A is used

training.gov.au lists CHCCSL501A inside 30 training products, 3 of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for CHCCSL501A in that product.

Current products 3 listed

CodeTraining productTypeCHCCSL501A is
CHC42315Certificate IV in Chaplaincy and Pastoral CareQualificationelective
CHC53215Diploma of Alcohol and Other DrugsQualificationelective
CHC53315Diploma of Mental HealthQualificationelective

Products no longer current 27 listed

The register still records CHCCSL501A 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 productTypeCHCCSL501A is
CHC41108Certificate IV in Pastoral CareQualificationelective
CHC41112Certificate IV in Pastoral CareQualificationelective
CHC42408Certificate IV in Relationship EducationQualificationelective
CHC42412Certificate IV in Relationship EducationQualificationelective
CHC50108Diploma of DisabilityQualificationelective
CHC50208Diploma of Community Services (Alcohol and other drugs)Qualificationelective
CHC50212Diploma of Community Services (Alcohol and other drugs)Qualificationelective
CHC50308Diploma of Community Services (Mental health)Qualificationelective
CHC50312Diploma of Community Services (Mental health)Qualificationelective
CHC50608Diploma of Community Services WorkQualificationelective
Show the remaining 17 products no longer current
CodeTraining productTypeCHCCSL501A is
CHC50612Diploma of Community Services WorkQualificationelective
CHC50708Diploma of Community DevelopmentQualificationelective
CHC51108Diploma of Children's Contact Services WorkQualificationelective
CHC51708Diploma of CounsellingQualificationelective
CHC51712Diploma of CounsellingQualificationelective
CHC51808Diploma of Family Intake and Support WorkQualificationelective
CHC51812Diploma of Family Intake and Support WorkQualificationelective
CHC51908Diploma of Relationship EducationQualificationelective
CHC51912Diploma of Relationship EducationQualificationelective
CHC52015Diploma of Community ServicesQualificationelective
CHC52108Diploma of Community Services (Financial counselling)Qualificationelective
CHC52115Diploma of Community DevelopmentQualificationelective
HLT50113Diploma of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health CareQualificationelective
HLT50213Diploma of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care PracticeQualificationelective
HLT52207Diploma of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health (Community Care)Qualificationelective
HLT61107Advanced Diploma of Nursing (Enrolled/Division 2 nursing)Qualificationelective
HLT61307Advanced Diploma of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health (Community Care)Qualificationelective

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.

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