Before and After School Care Fund - Vacation Care Grant - 2022/23

Outside school hours care (OSHC) services play an essential role in the livelihood and wellbeing of NSW families. Three grants have been designed to ensure providers are well supported in delivering affordable, flexible and quality care, to address demand and provide access to before and after school care for every NSW primary school child who needs it.

The Vacation Care Grant Program is designed to encourage and support the development of new and innovative projects that will contribute to the viability of an approved Vacation Care service, with priority given to those projects that target access for children from vulnerable cohorts.

The objectives of the Vacation Care Grant Program are to:

• Support programming initiatives that are new, engaging, and inclusive
• Support new projects that will contribute to the viability of an approved Vacation Care service
• Encourage initiatives that focus on providing creative and innovative solutions to issues relating to the provision of Vacation Care services
• Support new projects that will contribute to improved access to vacation care for vulnerable cohorts as per the Commonwealth Government’s Priority of Access Guidelines
• Improve access for NSW primary school students to approved Vacation Care