Deadline: 5 October 2017
The Australian Government is seeking applications from eligible child care services in an open competitive process to apply to deliver services under the Community Child Care Fund (CCCF) from 1 July 2018.
The CCCF is part of the Australian Government’s Child Care Safety Net, which contributes to giving the most vulnerable children a strong start in life while supporting parents into work.
The objective of the CCCF is to support child care services to address barriers to child care participation, particularly targeting disadvantaged and vulnerable families and communities.
Objectives
The CCCF open competitive grant opportunity is intended to:
- support eligible child care services to transition to and operate viably under the new child care system, and
- support the longer term sustainability of eligible child care services.
Funding Information
Up to $50 million per annum has been made available by the Australian Government from July 2018 for allocation under the CCCF open competitive grant opportunity.
Elements
The CCCF open competitive grant opportunity will provide funding fewer than three categories, called program ‘elements’. Each element is intended to fund a specific type of activity. The elements are:
- Sustainability Support: helping eligible child care services operating in areas of limited supply improve the viability and sustainability of their service.
- Community Support: helping eligible child care 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 eligible child care services by contributing towards the cost of modifying, renovating, extending or building child care facilities (‘capital works’). These capital works must result in more child care places in areas where there is unmet demand.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible to apply under this grant opportunity applicants must be:
- An approved provider of an approved child care service
- An organisation which is either:
- Seeking funding for an approved child care service operating in a priority area
- Seeking funding for an approved child care service currently in receipt of funding under the department’s Community Support Program
- While both for-profit and not-for-profit services are eligible to apply and funding preference will be given to not-for-profit services
- To be eligible to apply for this grant opportunity you must be the approved provider of an approved child care service under The New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999 (Family Assistance Law).
How to Apply
Applicants can apply via given website.
Eligible Country: Australia
For more information, please visit Community Child Care Fund Program.