Community Support includes a range of programs designed to support access to child care for children and families in areas or in circumstances where the market would otherwise fail to provide child care services.
Community Support comprises the following programs:
Establishment Program
This program will improve access to child care for families in identified areas of need, especially rural and remote areas, by encouraging and assisting organisations to establish
new child care services.
Payments under the Establishment Program are only available for new child care services in areas of need approved by the Department.
Payments currently available include:
- Set-up Assistance Grant
- Long Day Care Incentive Scheme
Sustainability Program
This program will improve and support access to
established child care services for families in areas of need approved by the Department.
Payments under the Sustainability Program may be available for existing child care services.
Payments available include:
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