Current Grant Opportunity View - GO7073

These grants are being made available to the Early Childhood Education and Care workforce to assist with educator retention and upskilling. They provide money for ECEC services to:

1-     pay educators to undertake mandatory or highly recommended training during working hours or in their own time OR backfill those educators so that they can undertake mandatory or highly recommended trainings during working hours.

   2- Pay educators a wage while they complete their practical component of an ECEC degree (including Diploma, Grad Diploma, Bachelor, Masters) to help student-educators complete their degrees.

ECEC Providers that apply for this grant on behalf of their ECEC services’ educators must be an approved Provider in the Child Care Subsidy system to receive this grant. The application process is driven by CRNs and ECEC providers without a CCS approval and registered CRN will not be able to apply.

Consequently, ECEC services that are not approved in the CCS system will not be able to receive funds.

Educators being applied on behalf of must:

-        Have legal working rights in Australia

-        Have worked forty hours in the three months prior to their provider applying for the grant.

-        Be part of the educator to child ratio.

  -     Be working full time, part time or casual.

The grant outcomes for this grant are expected to be delivered by ECEC services and their educators in the financial year grant funding is received in i.e. if received in 2024-25, professional development or funded practicums must occur in that financial year.

Potential applicants can follow the weblinks provided on the Department of Education website for these programs to the dedicated grants portal to lodge their application.