Community Child Care Fund

Grants to help providers and services address barriers to early childhood education and care (ECEC) participation. They’re particularly for disadvantaged, regional and remote, and Indigenous communities.

Grants

Special circumstances

✅ Open

A grant that helps services stay open when something unexpected happens, like a local emergency.
Disadvantaged and vulnerable communities

📅 Open at specific times

A grant that helps services in disadvantaged and vulnerable areas stay open and increase the number of children in care.
Limited supply

🚫 Closed

A grant that helped providers set up new services in regional and remote areas with limited supply.
Restricted

🔒 Open to identified services

A grant that helps identified services operate sustainably.
Restricted expansion

🔒 Open to identified services

A grant to set up new First Nations-led services in areas of need. A Closing the Gap measure.
Connected Beginnings

🔒 Open to identified services

A community-led grants program helping Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children get the best start to life. A Closing the Gap measure.

Business support

🚫 Closed

Free business support has been offered to services who get a Community Child Care Fund grant. 

There are currently no opportunities to access this support, but this page will be updated in future if that changes.

Learn more about business support

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