Program · Outcome 1: Improved early learning, schooling, student educational outcomes and transitions to and from school through access to quality early childhood education and care, support, parent engagement, quality teaching and learning environments
Program 1.1: Support for the Child Care System
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$1.6bn
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$678m (−29.3%) on 2025-26 estimated actual
Traced to named suppliers and grant recipients
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Published lines
Each row is one line of the program’s expense table in the 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements – Program Expense Line Items, as published.
| Line | Kind | 2025-26 estimated actual |
2026-27 Budget estimate |
Change | Treatment | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wage Justice for Early Childhood Education and Care Workers (Special Account) Act 2024 | administered | $1.8bn | $1.1bn | −$736m −40.5% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 396 |
| Ordinary annual services (Appropriation Bill No. 1) | administered | $498m | $556m | +$58m +11.6% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 394 |
| A New Tax System (Family Assistance)(Administration) Act 1999 | administered | $4.0m | $4.0m | no change 0.0% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 395 |