Family Day Care Set Up Assistance

Set Up Assistance is a one-off payment made by DEEWR on behalf of the Australian Government to eligible new services to help establish new child care services and to assist in meeting set up costs.

Funding is provided to new services to assist in meeting set up costs by contributing to expenses such as:

Employing staff
Advertising for staff/carers and parents
Purchasing toys and equipment
Phone expenses
Insurance.

Eligibility

Eligible for-profit organisations may receive Set Up Assistance for up to 10 child care services only. However, if they own or operate 10 or more child care services of any care type (Australia wide) they will not be eligible to receive Set Up Assistance.

To be eligible to receive Set Up Assistance a new service must:

be approved to administer Child Care Benefit on behalf of families
not have commenced providing child care
not be a relocation of an existing service
not be taking over a child care service of the same care type that has operated from the same facilities at any time in the previous 12 months.

More information:

Child Care Service Handbook
Family Day Care Funding Program Guidelines 2010-11 ( PDF 504KB | RTF 259KB)
Set Up Assistance Application Form ( PDF 96KB)
By calling 1300 363 079 and requesting the DEEWR child care team in your state or territory.