RHAAP will be required to submit the travel amount being claimed each quarter. CAV will pay travel reimbursements in August, following the end of the financial year the travel was undertaken. 5.3 Professional development The RHAAP will be allocated a discrete budget for purchasing specialist training on the RVA to ensure that RHAAP workers have an up-to-date understanding of retirement housing legislation. The RHAAP workers will also be eligible for the professional development program provided to TAAP workers. 5.4 Interpreting services The RHAAP provider will have access to interpreting services if required for communicating with clients or workers with limited English proficiency. Interpreting costs are funded directly by CAV. The RHAAP provider will be able to use either Victorian Interpreting and Translations Services or Translation and Interpreting Services. The RHAAP provider will be provided with an access code for the services. 5.5 Funding agreement To receive RHAAP funding, the organisation must enter a formal funding agreement with CAV in the form of the Victorian Common Funding Agreement. The standard terms and conditions of this agreement are not negotiable. These terms are available on the A schedule to the funding agreement, describing the funded activities, milestones and reporting requirements, will be developed by CAV in consultation with the preferred RHAAP provider on the basis of its response to this RFS. The funding agreement will incorporate the service delivery requirements contained in this RFS. 5.6 Payments Funding payments will be made on a quarterly basis upon CAV’s acceptance that the RHAAP provider is meeting its requirements under the funding agreement including: complying with reporting requirements delivering the required service to a high quality standard, and meeting other service delivery requirements. Failure to meet the service delivery requirements will constitute a breach of the funding agreement and may result in CAV reducing or withholding payments. All payments will be made via electronic funds transfer to the organisation’s account nominated in the funding agreement.
RHAAP will be required to submit the travel amount being claimed each quarter. CAV will pay travel reimbursements in August, following the end of the financial year the travel was undertaken. 5.3 Professional development The RHAAP will be allocated a discrete budget for purchasing specialist training on the RVA to ensure that RHAAP workers have an up-to-date understanding of retirement housing legislation. The RHAAP workers will also be eligible for the professional development program provided to TAAP workers. 5.4 Interpreting services The RHAAP provider will have access to interpreting services if required for communicating with clients or workers with limited English proficiency. Interpreting costs are funded directly by CAV. The RHAAP provider will be able to use either Victorian Interpreting and Translations Services or Translation and Interpreting Services. The RHAAP provider will be provided with an access code for the services. 5.5 Funding agreement To receive RHAAP funding, the organisation must enter a formal funding agreement with CAV in the form of the Victorian Common Funding Agreement. The standard terms and conditions of this agreement are not negotiable. These terms are available on the A schedule to the funding agreement, describing the funded activities, milestones and reporting requirements, will be developed by CAV in consultation with the preferred RHAAP provider on the basis of its response to this RFS. The funding agreement will incorporate the service delivery requirements contained in this RFS. 5.6 Payments Funding payments will be made on a quarterly basis upon CAV’s acceptance that the RHAAP provider is meeting its requirements under the funding agreement including: complying with reporting requirements delivering the required service to a high quality standard, and meeting other service delivery requirements. Failure to meet the service delivery requirements will constitute a breach of the funding agreement and may result in CAV reducing or withholding payments. All payments will be made via electronic funds transfer to the organisation’s account nominated in the funding agreement.
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