We're ensuring quality and safety in services that don't operate under the National Quality Framework (NQF).
For most early childhood education and care services, the NQF provides a national approach to ensuring quality standards are met.
A small number of services are out of scope of the NQF. This includes some Community Child Care Fund restricted (CCCFR) services. Such services operate under the Child Care Subsidy Minister’s Rules 2017.
In 2025, we're starting a regulatory project to provide additional support to these services to enable them to meet the quality and safety requirements in the Minister’s Rules.
We will work collaboratively with these services to ensure quality and safety.
Our regulatory approach:
- will align with the key objectives of the NQF
- will acknowledge the unique contexts these services operate in
- aims to ensure all children have access to high quality and safe early learning environments.
The project builds on several existing projects including:
- ACECQA Quality and Safety Project
- Northern Territory Regulatory Project
- South Australia Regulatory Project.
We have contacted identified services directly with more information. If you have questions about the project, contact ECYRegulatoryProject@education.gov.au.
Read more about the regulatory project on our website.