Community Child Care Fund Open Competitive Round 3 grant opportunity

Overview

This grant opportunity is available to Child Care Subsidy (CCS) approved services that meet eligibility criteria in the Grant Opportunity Guidelines. Intended outcomes are: • child care services operating in disadvantaged and vulnerable communities are able to address (or have increased capacity to address) community level barriers to child care participation • increased number of children from vulnerable or disadvantaged families and communities accessing child care • increased sustainability of child care services operating in disadvantaged communities experiencing viability issues, including in areas with fluctuating and/or low short-term demand • increased availability of child care places in disadvantaged communities with high unmet demand through capital works projects. Funding is available under 3 elements: • Sustainability Support: helping services operating in areas of limited supply improve the viability and sustainability of their service. • Community Support: helping services to work with other organisations and families to identify and address community level barriers to child care participation. The engagement must ultimately result in increased child care participation. • Capital Support: helping services with the cost of modifying, renovating, extending or building child care facilities. These capital works must result in more child care places in areas where there is unmet demand.