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
Outcome 1
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$274m
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$5.5m (−2.0%) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departmental appropriation | departmental | $271m | $264m | −$6.2m −2.3% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 404 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | departmental | $8.8m | $9.8m | +$1.0m +11.4% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 406 |
| s74 External Revenue | departmental | $288k | $0 | −$288k −100.0% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 405 |