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From 5 January 2026, the Child Care Subsidy (CCS) activity test is changing

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From 5 January 2026, the CCS activity test is being replaced. Families will get at least 72 hours of subsidised care per fortnight. 

care for an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander child · have an exemption or experience exceptional circumstances

receive Additional Child Care Subsidy (ACCS) child wellbeing, temporary financial hardship or grandparent payments. 

 includes paid work, study, training, volunteering. To find out more and lodge a claim, visit the 

Recognised participation

Annual income is your and your partner’s adjusted taxable income for the whole financial year. For more information, visit 

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About this tool

This quick and easy Child Care Subsidy (CCS) calculator tool helps you find out what your family might pay for early childhood education and care. Use this tool to check your Child Care Subsidy.

For a more comprehensive estimate across a range of payments, including Child Care Subsidy, Family Tax Benefit and Income Support Payments, see 

Services Australia's Payment and Service Finder.

What is the Child Care Subsidy

Who can receive the Child Care Subsidy

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Find the right early learning service based on fees, vacancies, quality ratings and inclusions.

Looking for quality early childhood education and care?

Child Care Subsidy rates are changing soon. 

From 5 January 2026, all CCS eligible families can get at least 72 hours of subsidised care per fortnight. These changes are known as the 3 Day Guarantee.

The amount of Child Care Subsidy you get depends on your circumstances. These estimates are based on the information you provide. To learn more go to 

Child Care Subsidy Calculator

Services are given a rating for each NQS quality area and an overall NQS service quality rating based on these results. The overall rating provides a snapshot of how the service is performing.

Learn more about the assessment and ratings process

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Assessment and Ratings Process

Approved children's education and care services across Australia are assessed and rated by their state and territory regulatory authority. The NQS is part of the National Regulations and includes seven quality areas that are important to children's learning and developmental outcomes.

Service Quality Ratings

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State and territory regulatory authorities visit services to undertake quality assessment and rating, support quality improvement, monitor compliance, and investigate complaints and incidents.

Regulatory activities

Conditions are an additional requirement that services or providers must comply with.

Conditions

Learn more about enforcement actions here

These are actions taken by the State or Territory regulatory authorities when a service is found to be not complying with National Health and Safety regulations. These actions range in severity and are designed to improve and ensure children’s safety and wellbeing.

What is an enforcement action?

The regulatory authority may amend the provider or service’s approval to operate.

Compliance notices or directions include formal instructions for a service to rectify compliance issues.

Conditions placed on a service or provider approval require the service or provider to undertake specific actions to be compliant.

 – Emergency action notices require immediate steps to be taken by the provider to address serious risks at a service.

 – Enforceable undertakings are legally binding agreements that can be made between a regulatory authority and an approved provider or an individual. They set out what that approved provider or individual agrees to do or refrain from doing to comply with the National Law.

 – In extreme cases, the provider or service may temporarily lose their approval to operate.

What are the different enforcement actions?

For more details, ask your service for their record of compliance with the Education and Care Services National Law.

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. They may be awaiting assessment rating under the National Quality Framework (NQF). To find out more, contact the service provider directly.

Out of scope

This service is not yet rated by the National Quality Standard (NQS).

This service does not operate under the National Quality Framework and is therefore not assessed against the National Quality Standard or receive a NQS quality rating. 

They may be subject to other regulatory systems or frameworks. To find out more, contact the service provider directly.

This service is not operating under the National Quality Standard (NQS).

For fee and inclusions information, please contact the service directly.

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Shows if the service has vacancies this week. Please contact the service to confirm age group and permanent/casual intake.

General Vacancy

For vacancies information, please contact the service directly.

Vacancies

This service is approved to provide education and care to five (5) children from 30 months to 36 months of age.

1.	At all times when education and care is being provided under the service approval, the total number of children receiving education and care under the service approval and including the number of children enrolled in the Prep class, does not exceed 85 in total.
2.	The outdoor play space may be used for the provision of integrated activities for children receiving education and care under the service approval as well as children enrolled in Prep, subject to other licence conditions.
3.	There are not less than 7m²outdoor play space per child receiving education and care under the service approval and including children enrolled in the Prep class. 
4.	The ratio of 1 qualified educator for the 5 children aged 30 – 36 months and 1 qualified educator for every 11 children aged 36 months and including children enrolled in Prep, when the outdoor play space is being used.
5.     This service is approved to education and care to 5 children from 30 - 36 months.
6.	The ratio of one toilet to every 10 children receiving education and care under the service approval and including children enrolled in the Prep class to be maintained at all times. 
7.	An educator qualified with a recognised early childhood qualification or working towards a recognised early childhood qualification must be supervising the outdoor bathrooms at all times that children enrolled in the kindergarten are utilising the outdoor environment.
8.	A supervision plan must be in place that ensures a suitably qualified educator is allocated to supervise the outdoor bathrooms whenever children enrolled in Kindergarten are utilising the outdoor environment. 
9.     Risk assessments must be created and reviewed termly that identify all risks associated with integrated services being provided within the education and care environment. Risk minimisation plans must be developed and reviewed termly for all risks identified.

Napranum Early Childhood Centre - Kindergarten

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