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2026 Start Strong for Long Day Care
Offered by Department of Education
Closes December 2026
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Verified against Department of Education's own page on 27 Aug 2026
Key facts
- Funding amount
- $350m to $380m
- The program value is approximately $350 million to $380 million.
- Status
- Open now
- Opened 1 January 2026
- Jurisdiction
- New South Wales
- Last verified
- 27 Aug 2026
- The date we last read this program on Department of Education's own page.
Who can apply
Department of Education lists this program as open to the following kinds of applicant. It is a starting filter, not the full eligibility test, and the guidelines on the official page are what decide it.
- Indigenous organisations
Eligibility, in the funder's words
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What the program funds
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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What it is for
This program is categorised under the following purposes. Each one that has a page of its own links to every other Australian grant we track for the same purpose.
How to apply
Applications for 2026 Start Strong for Long Day Care are made through Department of Education, not through GrantWindow. We do not take applications, charge a fee or act as an intermediary, and any site that offers to apply on your behalf for a government grant is worth a very careful look.
Apply for 2026 Start Strong for Long Day Care on the official site
Applications close in December 2026. Government grant portals are busiest on the final day and several of them close on the stroke of the deadline, so the practical advice is to submit a day early.
Where this 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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