Parent Payments
2025 Parent Payment Letters
Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund (CSEF)
The CSEF provides payments to assist eligible families to cover the costs of camps, sporting activities and excursions.
Payments are made directly to an eligible student’s school. Schools must use a CSEF payment only for the eligible student and not for that student’s siblings or any other student (except where the eligible student leaves the Victorian education system and there are remaining and unspent funds).
Some common examples of school-organised programs for which a CSEF payment may be used include:
- school camps/trips
- swimming and other school-organised sporting programs
- outdoor education programs
- excursions/incursions.
The CSEF payment cannot be used towards:
- books
- stationery
- school uniforms
- before/after school care
- music lessons
- locker hire
- classroom and homework materials
- graduations and formals
- other expenses unrelated to camps, sports or excursions.
State School Relief
State Schools’ Relief (SSR) is an autonomous, charitable organisation that assists Victorian government school students who are experiencing financial disadvantage because of short-term crisis or long-term chronic need.
SSR is supported by the department to provide assistance with uniforms and other essential items for students who need assistance to continue their education.
Short-term crisis and long-term chronic need are the primary qualifying criteria for support from SSR, including refugee status, homelessness, family violence, house fire, natural disaster, financial hardship, illness and emergency.
SSR assistance will be provided by either direct supply of uniform items or uniform vouchers for redemption from school uniform suppliers.
How is assistance provided?
All requests for support received by State Schools’ Relief are treated sympathetically and in confidence. Assistance in the form of clothing or footwear is provided directly from our own stock, where possible, and is delivered directly to your school free of charge.
Where a voucher is provided in lieu of physical items, this will be emailed to the school for the student/family to use towards purchases from the school uniform shop, or uniform retailer, on a gap-payment basis.
What’s the process?
State Schools’ Relief can only respond to assistance requests from principals, assistant principals and/or wellbeing/ welfare coordinators. Teachers and principals can request further information and clarification by contacting our office on 03 8769 8400.
Parents or carers who are struggling to provide their child’s uniform may need to make an appointment with the school principal or assistant principal/welfare coordinator to discuss their individual situation.
Who is eligible?
State Schools’ Relief provides support to any Victorian student attending a government school (primary, secondary or specialist), on the advice of the school.
Schools are able to submit an application directly, via our online portal, whenever they believe there is a need to support a student whose family/carers are facing difficulty in providing the appropriate uniform, footwear or educational items for attending school.
- Situations include, but are not limited to:
- Unemployment
- Health issues/illness
- Financial difficulties
- Independent living and/or homelessness
- Natural disasters, house fires
- Bereavement
- Domestic violence
All applications are processed within 24 – 48 hours and you will receive confirmation of application/s by email. Orders will then be delivered within 4 working days.
Information for the 2025 Year 7 CSEF Uniform Package.
Eligibility
Students eligible to receive the 2025 Year 7 Uniform Package must be a Camps, Sports and Excursion Fund (CSEF) recipient. To find out more, please refer to the Department of Education website.
Information for the 2025 Year 7 CSEF Uniform Package.
What’s in the package?
The 2025 Year 7 package contains the following items:
- Tops x 2 pcs (i.e. windcheater / polo shirt / rugby top / shirt / summer dress)
- Pants x 2 pcs (i.e. pants / track pants / trousers / shorts / skirts)
- Outerwear x 1 pce (i.e. puffer jacket)
- Pair of Shoes x 1
Please note:
a) PE items are not included as part of this package
b) Shoes must be requested in UK sizes (please see our shoe size conversion chart)
Cost to families
Where State Schools’ Relief is unable to provide a uniform item directly that contains a logo (due to contractual agreements with uniform retailers) the student will receive a voucher for $85 that subsidises the cost of these items. The voucher can be redeemed at your school uniform shop, or independent uniform retailer.
Please note: vouchers do have an expiry date and must be used before this date.
School Saving Bonus
The Victorian Government is providing a one-off $400 School Saving Bonus. This support will help cover the cost of school uniforms, textbooks, and school activities like camps, excursions and sports. The School Saving Bonus is in addition to existing and continuing means-tested supports for Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund (CSEF) and the Affordable School Uniforms Program.
Link to the PDFs called SSB information government school parents carers and System guide for parents and carers