On 25 January 2024, FDCA submitted our Pre-Budget considerations for 2024-2025 to the Australian Government. The submission recommends four key investment measures to support the continued viability of a sector that is highly valued for its flexible, responsive and affordable ECEC:
- Raise the hourly CCS cap rate for family day care to be on par with that of the centre-based care sector;
- Apply an additional loading of 20% to the recalculated CCS fee cap for non-standard hours care;
- Initiate a direct funding support program (an “Approved Service Engagement Payment”) for family day care approved services to assist in the recruitment, induction and training of new family day care educators; and
- Initiate a direct funding support program (an “Educator Start-up Grant”) for new family day care educators to assist in overcoming some of the financial barriers to entry into the sector in establishing their micro-business.
You can find FDCA’s pre-budget submission for 2024-25 as well as other submissions we have made on our website here.
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