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

Overview

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  support new services to build capacity and operate sustainably under the early childhood education and care (ECEC) system support new services to increase access to early childhood education and care, and enable local workforce participation. The intended outcomes of the grant opportunity are to: establish new early childhood services in communities experiencing disadvantage in regional or remote areas, where there is a gap in the supply of approved services support newly established services in communities experiencing disadvantage in regional and remote areas, to operate sustainably, engage local workforce, and address community level barriers to participation in early childhood education increase the number of children from communities experiencing disadvantage in regional and remote areas accessing early childhood education increase the availability of approved ECEC in communities experiencing disadvantage in regional and remote areas, with high unmet demand through capital works projects.