This proposal has three components.

Component 1 has two elements that relate to the National Partnership Agreement on Universal Access to Early Childhood Education which determines Commonwealth and state funding for preschool attendance. The current agreement concludes at the end of the 2020 calendar year.

This proposal has three components.

Component 1 has two elements that relate to the National Partnership Agreement on Universal Access to Early Childhood Education which determines Commonwealth and state funding for preschool attendance. The current agreement concludes at the end of the 2020 calendar year.

This proposal has three components.

Component 1 has two elements that relate to the National Partnership Agreement on Universal Access to Early Childhood Education which determines Commonwealth and state funding for preschool attendance. The current agreement concludes at the end of the 2020 calendar year.

This proposal has two components that relate to the National Partnership Agreement on Universal Access to Early Childhood Education, which determines Commonwealth, state and territory funding for preschool attendance. The current agreement concludes at the end of the 2020 calendar year.

This proposal would increase the child care subsidy rates and income thresholds as follows.

This option would provide families with either the Child Care Subsidy (CCS) rates as set out in the table below, or the existing baseline CCS rates, depending on the subsidy calculation which is most generous to the family. The revised CCS rates would apply from 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2026, at which point the program would revert to existing policy settings.

Second (or subsequent) children of families with more than one child under six in child care would receive:

This option would provide families with either the Child Care Subsidy (CCS) rates as set out in the table below, or the existing baseline CCS rates, depending on the subsidy calculation which is most generous to the family. The revised CCS rates would apply from 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2026, at which point the program would revert to existing policy settings.

Second (or subsequent) children of families with more than one child under six in child care would receive:

The proposal has three parts.

The proposal has three parts.

The proposal has three parts.