Ongoing intakeCommonwealth of AustraliaGovernment
ECEC Workforce Professional Development and Paid Practicum
Offered by Department of Education
Ongoing intake
This program accepts applications continuously and the funder publishes no closing date. Ongoing programs do get closed or paused, sometimes without notice, so we watch this one nightly and the alert list is told the day it changes.
Verified against Department of Education's own page on 27 Aug 2026
Key facts
- Funding amount
- Not stated
- Status
- Ongoing intake
- Opened 23 July 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
Free account
Full eligibility detail is behind a free account
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What the program funds
These grants are being made available to the Early Childhood Education and Care workforce to assist with educator retention and upskilling. They provide money for ECEC services to: 1- pay educators to undertake mandatory or highly recommended training during working hours or in their own time OR backfill those educators so that they can undertake mandatory or highly recommended trainings during working hours.
Free account
The rest of this program's detail is behind a free account
Create a free GrantWindow account to read the funder's full description of what this program pays for.
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 ECEC Workforce Professional Development and Paid Practicum 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 ECEC Workforce Professional Development and Paid Practicum on the official site
Where this came from
Sourced from GrantConnect (grants.gov.au), © Commonwealth of Australia, used under CC BY 4.0.
Confirm details on the official page before applying. GrantWindow records what the funder published and when we read it. We are not the funder and this page is not legal, financial or eligibility advice.