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Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) Worker Retention Payment
Offered by Department of Education
Closes September 2026
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Verified against Department of Education's own page on 27 Aug 2026
Key facts
- Funding amount
- Not stated
- Status
- Open now
- Opened 1 October 2024
- Jurisdiction
- Commonwealth of Australia
- ACT, NSW, VIC, SA, WA, QLD, NT, TAS
- Last verified
- 27 Aug 2026
- The date we last read this program on Department of Education's own page.
Who can apply
The funder does not publish a structured list of eligible applicant types for this program. The eligibility criteria in the guidelines on the official page are the ones that count.
Eligibility, in the funder's words
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What the program funds
Funding to support a wage increase for all eligible ECEC workers
That description is Department of Education's own wording, reproduced from the official listing under CC BY 4.0 (Australian Government default open licence). Our plain-English summaries are being written program by program and this one has not been done yet.
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 Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) Worker Retention Payment 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 Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) Worker Retention Payment on the official site
Applications close in September 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
Sourced from GrantConnect (grants.gov.au), © Commonwealth of Australia, used under CC BY 4.0.
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