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 1.2: Child Care Subsidy
The Child Care Subsidy (CCS) aims to improve access to quality early childhood education and care by providing assistance to meet the cost of early childhood education and care for families engaged in work, training, study or other recognised activity.
Department of Education, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 40 reported
$16.9bn
2026-27 Budget estimate
+$1.3bn (+8.3%) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A New Tax System (Family Assistance)(Administration) Act 1999 | administered | $15.6bn | $16.9bn | +$1.3bn +8.3% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 397 |