Families can get 100 hours of subsidised child care each fortnight for each child if they:
- care for an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander child
- have more than 48 hours each fortnight of recognised participation
- have an exemption or experience exceptional circumstances, or
- receive Additional Child Care Subsidy (ACCS) child wellbeing, temporary financial hardship or grandparent payments.
Minister for Education, the Hon Jason Clare MP said:
This is a guarantee of three days a week access to subsidised early education and care for the children who need it the most.
No one blinks when you say every child has a right to go to school and government has a responsibility to help fund it.
The same has got to be true today for early education and that's what this is about."
Minister for Early Childhood Education, Senator the Hon Dr Jess Walsh said:
Every child deserves access to quality early learning - no matter their postcode, or what their parents do for work.
Too many children have been locked out of quality early education and care because of their parents' work or study activity.
I'm so proud that that's about to change with the introduction of the Albanese Labor Government's 3 Day Guarantee."
Families must still pay a gap fee, except in certain circumstances.
Families are not guaranteed a place with a provider. Families will still need to secure a place with their chosen child care service.
Families who want to get more than 72 hours will need to report their recognised participation to Services Australia.
