Health and Development Participation Grant FY24/25

The HDP Grant funding aims to support early childhood education and care providers to embed suitable strategies to enable their partnership, and children’s participation, in the HDC Program and related capacity building supports. The key objective of the HDP Grant is to increase awareness of and engagement with the HDC Program.

Who can apply:

• Not-for-profit community preschool (centre based or mobile);
• Not-for-profit long day care (as identified in the National Quality Agenda IT system, or where sufficient evidence is provided upon request), including a local government managed service;
• Multifunctional Aboriginal Children’s Service*;
• Aboriginal Child and Family Centre*
• Aboriginal Controlled Community Organisation*; and
• Standalone for-profit long day care (defined as for profit providers operating a single long day care service as identified by the National Quality Agenda IT system);