2026 Health and Development Participation Grant NSW

This program provides funding to eligible early childhood education and care providers to support implementation of the Health and Development Checks in Early Childhood Education Program and related cohort-wide capacity building supports in 2026.
Open
Closes in 29 days

Closing date: Wednesday 3 December 2025 Wed 3 Dec 2025

What do you get?

Funding between $1,500 and $7,500.

Who is this for?

NSW early childhood education and care providers.

Overview

The Health and Development Participation (HDP) grant funding aims to support early childhood education and care providers to embed suitable strategies to enable their partnership, and children’s participation, in the Health and Development Checks in Early Childhood Education (HDC) Program and related capacity building supports. The key objective of the HDP grant is to increase awareness of and engagement with the HDC Program.

Check if you can apply

Applications are open to:

  • for-profit providers operating up to 3 long day care services (as identified in the National Quality Agenda IT system)
  • not-for-profit community preschool (centre based) 
  • not-for-profit long day care (as identified in the National Quality Agenda IT system, or where sufficient evidence is provided upon request), including a local government managed service 
  • multifunctional Aboriginal Children’s Services
  • Aboriginal Child and Family Centres
  • Aboriginal Controlled Community Organisations.

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