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 1.5: Early Learning and Schools Support
This program supports initiatives that contribute to improved access to high-quality teaching and learning in early learning and school education for all Australian students.
Department of Education, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 48 reported
$237m
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$13m (−5.2%) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ordinary annual services (Appropriation Bill No. 1) | administered | $244m | $231m | −$13m −5.1% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 402 |
| Other services (Appropriation Bill No. 2) | administered | $6.4m | $6.0m | −$400k −6.2% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 403 |