Community Child Care Fund - Establishing Child Care in Limited Supply Areas

The Australian Government is inviting applications from Child Care Subsidy approved providers to set up new centre based day care and family day care services under this Grant Opportunity.  

The objectives of the grant opportunity are to:

• assist eligible providers to establish new early childhood services in disadvantaged regional and remote areas of Australia where there is an absence, or limited supply, of approved centre based day care (CBDC) or family day care (FDC) services (see Glossary)
• support new services to build capacity and operate sustainably under the ECEC system
• support new services to increase access to early childhood education and enable local workforce participation.

The intended outcomes of the grant opportunity are to:

• establish new early childhood services in disadvantaged regional or remote communities where there is a gap in the supply of approved services
• support newly established services in disadvantaged regional and remote communities to operate sustainably, engage local workforce, and address community level barriers to participation in early childhood education
• increase the number of children from disadvantaged regional and remote areas accessing early childhood education
• increase the availability of approved early childhood education in disadvantaged regional and remote communities with high unmet demand through capital works projects.