CHCGMB503A Provide counselling for clients with problem gambling issues

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for CHCGMB503A 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The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted.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
nothing — no earlier product listed
Superseded by
CHCGMB002 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. CHCGMB503ASuperseded — not equivalentProvide counselling for clients with problem gambling issues
  2. not equivalent
  3. CHCGMB002CurrentProvide counselling for clients with problem gambling issues

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.

  • CHCGMB503ACHCGMB002not 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.

Is CHCGMB503A on your scope?

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Where CHCGMB503A is used

training.gov.au lists CHCGMB503A inside 20 training products, 2 of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for CHCGMB503A in that product.

Current products 2 listed

CodeTraining productTypeCHCGMB503A is
CHC53215Diploma of Alcohol and Other DrugsQualificationelective
CHC53315Diploma of Mental HealthQualificationelective

Products no longer current 18 listed

The register still records CHCGMB503A 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 productTypeCHCGMB503A is
CHC31008Certificate III in Telephone Counselling SkillsQualificationelective
CHC41108Certificate IV in Pastoral CareQualificationelective
CHC41112Certificate IV in Pastoral CareQualificationelective
CHC41808Certificate IV in Youth WorkQualificationelective
CHC41812Certificate IV in Youth WorkQualificationelective
CHC41908Certificate IV in Youth JusticeQualificationelective
CHC41912Certificate IV in Youth JusticeQualificationelective
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
Show the remaining 8 products no longer current
CodeTraining productTypeCHCGMB503A is
CHC50312Diploma of Community Services (Mental health)Qualificationelective
CHC51408Diploma of Youth WorkQualificationelective
CHC51508Diploma of Youth JusticeQualificationelective
CHC51512Diploma of Youth JusticeQualificationelective
CHC51708Diploma of CounsellingQualificationelective
CHC51712Diploma of CounsellingQualificationelective
CHC52108Diploma of Community Services (Financial counselling)Qualificationelective
CHCSS00052Problem gambling skill setSkill setelective

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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