2025 Start Strong for Long Day Care - Intention to Backpay Families (New Services)
Training and skills funding for companies and indigenous organisations, offered by Department of Education.
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- Funding
- $515 to $2.2k
- Up to $2,174 per 4YO+ eligible enrolment and up to $515 per 3YO eligible enrolment.
- Where
- New South Wales
- Opened
- 26 March 2026
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Who can apply
- Companies
- Indigenous organisations
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What 2025 Start Strong for Long Day Care - Intention to Backpay Families (New Services) funds
This form is for approved providers with services that opened and provided education to enrolled and attending children, who may be eligible for funding under the 2025 Start Strong for LDC program and intend to backpay families fee relief in 2025. Start Strong for Long Day Care program objectives are to: improve affordability of preschool education support quality uplift in preschool education drive improved outcomes for children incentivise increased enrolment and attendance in quality early childhood education programs in the years before school.
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When does 2025 Start Strong for Long Day Care - Intention to Backpay Families (New Services) close?
This round of 2025 Start Strong for Long Day Care - Intention to Backpay Families (New Services) closed in April 2026. GrantWindow keeps the record because most Australian grant programs run again, and the alert list is told the night Department of Education opens the next one.
How much funding is available through 2025 Start Strong for Long Day Care - Intention to Backpay Families (New Services)?
Department of Education publishes a funding amount of $515 to $2.2k, noted as: Up to $2,174 per 4YO+ eligible enrolment and up to $515 per 3YO eligible enrolment.. Confirm it in the guidelines on the official page before you build a budget around it.
Who can apply for 2025 Start Strong for Long Day Care - Intention to Backpay Families (New Services)?
Department of Education lists this program as open to companies and indigenous organisations. That is a starting filter rather than the full eligibility test: the criteria in the funder's guidelines are what decide an application.
Is 2025 Start Strong for Long Day Care - Intention to Backpay Families (New Services) still open?
This round is closed. Closed rounds stay on record because most Australian grant programs run again, and the reopening is the one worth being early for. The alert list is told the night it does.
Who runs 2025 Start Strong for Long Day Care - Intention to Backpay Families (New Services), and does GrantWindow take a cut?
2025 Start Strong for Long Day Care - Intention to Backpay Families (New Services) is offered by Department of Education in New South Wales. Applications are made through the funder, never through GrantWindow: we take no applications, charge no fee and act as no intermediary. Any site offering to apply on your behalf for a government grant is worth a very careful look.
Where this record came from
© State of New South Wales. For current information go to www.nsw.gov.au. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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- Last checked24 Oct 2026The day we last read this program on the funder's own page.
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