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2026 Start Strong for Long Day Care

Training and skills funding for indigenous organisations, offered by Department of Education.

Closing date

December 2026

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Funding
$350m to $380m
The program value is approximately $350 million to $380 million.
Where
New South Wales
Opened
1 January 2026
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Who can apply

  • Indigenous organisations

These are the applicant types Department of Education lists for this program. It is a starting filter, not the full eligibility test, and the guidelines on the official page are what decide an application.

Eligibility, in Department of Education's own words

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What 2026 Start Strong for Long Day Care funds

What this money is forTraining and skills

The Start Strong for Long Day Care program provides funding to deliver affordable, quality preschool education to children aged 3 and above who are enrolled in eligible long day care services in NSW. 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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How to apply

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  • Applications close in December 2026. Government grant portals are busiest on the final day and several of them shut on the stroke of the deadline, so the practical advice is to submit a day early.
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About 2026 Start Strong for Long Day Care

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When does 2026 Start Strong for Long Day Care close?

Department of Education has this round closing in December 2026. The closing month is shown to every reader with no account at all; the exact day, the funder's own closing time, a live countdown and the link to the funder's application page open with a free 7 day trial. Government portals shut on the stroke of the deadline, so submit a day early.

How much funding is available through 2026 Start Strong for Long Day Care?

Department of Education publishes a funding amount of $350m to $380m, noted as: The program value is approximately $350 million to $380 million.. Confirm it in the guidelines on the official page before you build a budget around it.

Who can apply for 2026 Start Strong for Long Day Care?

Department of Education lists this program as open to 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 2026 Start Strong for Long Day Care still open?

It was open now when we last read Department of Education's own page, on 24 Oct 2026. Every source is re-read nightly and this page carries the date of the last read.

Who runs 2026 Start Strong for Long Day Care, and does GrantWindow take a cut?

2026 Start Strong for Long Day Care 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.

  1. Read fromnsw.gov.auNSW Government Grants and FundingThe address of Department of Education's own listing for this program is one of the two facts a trial opens.
  2. Published underCC BY 4.0CC BY 4.0
  3. Last checked24 Oct 2026The day we last read this program on the funder's own page.

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