Expanding Quality Access Program

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.

• Not for profits
• Schools

What the program funds

Expanding Quality Access a $100 million NSW Childcare and Economic Opportunity Fund grants program for not-for-profit providers of community preschools in NSW to transition one or more existing community preschools to a long day care service model. The objectives of the Expanding Quality Access are to: improve access to quality and affordable early childhood education and care (ECEC) for NSW children, particularly in underserved communities

That description is Department of Education's own wording, reproduced from the official listing under CC BY 4.0. 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.

• Community
• Training and skills

How to apply

Applications for Expanding Quality Access Program 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 Expanding Quality Access Program on the official site

Applications close in November 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.