Funding for Early childhood and Education and Care (ECEC) providers in western NSW

Overview

Funding is available to ECEC providers located in the Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Carrathool Shire, Hay Shire and Warrumbungle Shire, with the aim of increasing the workforce participation in western NSW.

Eligible activities could include:

• renovating or expanding current ECEC facilities to accommodate extra children
• offering more services to increase childcare availability
• delivering pre-employment and professional development programs to attract and retain people working in the sector.

There are 3 streams of funding:

• Stream 1: Service improvements and expansions
• Stream 2: Capital works and upgrades
• Stream 3: Workforce attraction and retention.

Check if you can apply

To be eligible, applicants must be able to demonstrate and provide evidence that they are an ECEC service in one or more of the 3 eligible LGAs.

Eligible ECEC services include:

• long day care
• family day care
• preschool
• mobile child care
• out of hours child care.

Applicants must also:

• have an Australian business number (ABN)
• have the capacity to increase the number of ECEC places within an eligible LGA
• be financially viable
• be a fit and proper person/legal entity.