Community Child Care Fund

Supports early childhood education and care (ECEC) services address barriers to ECEC participation, particularly targeting disadvantaged and vulnerable families and communities.

This grant opportunity is available to Child Care Subsidy (CCS) approved providers of approved child care services under the Family Assistance Law that meet the eligibility criteria set out in the Grant Opportunity Guidelines.

The CCCF Round 5 grants are for a grant period of up to 3 years.

The intended outcomes of the grant opportunity are to support:
- ECEC services providing care in under-served communities experiencing disadvantage or vulnerability to be able to address (or have increased capacity to address) community level barriers to child participation in early childhood services
- Increased number of children from families and communities experiencing disadvantage or vulnerability accessing ECEC
- Viability of ECEC services providing care to communities experiencing disadvantage, including in areas with fluctuating and/or low short-term demand.

The grant opportunity will provide funding for 2 key activity streams:
- Sustainability Support: helping eligible ECEC services improve the viability and financial sustainability of their service, including working with other organisations and families to identify and address community level barriers to early childhood participation. Community level engagement must ultimately result in increased access and participation.
- Capital Support: helping eligible ECEC services by contributing towards the cost of capital works, including repairing, modifying, renovating with a particular focus on child safety and compliance.

Supports early childhood education and care (ECEC) services address barriers to ECEC participation, particularly targeting disadvantaged and vulnerable families and communities.

To be eligible to apply for a grant under this grant opportunity, you must be an approved provider operating an approved child care service under the Family Assistance Law

AND
- A Centre-Based Day Care (CBDC) or Outside School Hours Care (OSHC) located in a CCCF Priority Area AND/OR
- A Family Day Care (FDC) or In Home Care (IHC) servicing a CCCF Priority Area AND/OR
- A Centre-Based Day Care (CBDC) or Outside School Hours Care (OSHC) located in an Inner Regional, Outer Regional, Remote or Very Remote area AND/OR
- A Family Day Care (FDC) or In Home Care (IHC) servicing an Inner Regional, Outer Regional, Remote or Very Remote area AND/OR
- Providing specialised care services to a sector of the community experiencing disadvantage or vulnerability.

While both for-profit and not-for-profit providers are eligible to apply, funding preference will be given to not-for-profit providers.