COVID-19 Government's Child Care and Early Childhood Education Relief Package


The Federal Government has just announced a relief package for the child care and early childhood education sector (‘child care sector’). The relief package is designed to:

Based on the Prime Minister’s Media Release of 2 April 2020, the relief package will involve additional funding for the child care sector, broadly as follows:

The Prime Minister’s Media Release also advises that, families who have terminated any child’s enrolment since 17 February 2020 should get in contact with the relevant centre to re-start the child’s enrolment. Furthermore, re-starting a child’s enrolment:

In a separate media statement, the Minister for Education, Dan Tehan, also indicated that means testing arrangements to access the child care subsidy for those who are working during the six-month Coronavirus pandemic will no longer be in place.

The Money Edge | Bundaberg

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