2026 Health and Development Participation Grant

The Health and Development Participation (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 Health and Development Checks in Early Childhood Education (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); 
• 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 
• For-profit providers operating up to 3 long day care services (as identified in the National Quality Agenda IT system);