Step 1: Are you a parent/carer or a kindergarten provider?
Step 2: Do you want to calculate the subsidy for sessional kindy or kindy in a long day care?
Sessional kindy
Approved sessional kindergartens run during school term and school hours, for 40 weeks a year. They provide kindergarten without extended hours of care.
Long day care
Approved long day care services providing kindergarten usually operate at least 10 hours a day, Monday to Friday, for at least 48 weeks a year. They provide a kindergarten program and extended hours of care. The Australian Government Child Care Subsidy may help reduce your fees.
Learn more about the different
types of kindergarten.
Step 3: Kindy Plus eligibility
Do one or more of the following apply to
you or yourthe parent/carer or the child who will be attending kindy?
- hold a current Australian Government Health Care Card (HCC)
- hold a current Australian Government Pensioner Concession Card (automatic HCC entitlements)
- hold a Department of Veterans' Affairs Gold Card or White Card
- have formal communication, such as a letter, from the relevant agency stating the intent to issue a Health Care Card
- have evidence of formal foster or kinship care arrangements
- are Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander
- have three or more children, of the same age, enrolled in the same year
- have a child who is identified as living in a formal child protection out-of-home-care arrangement
- are a family and child who have entered Australia under the Australian Government’s Refugee and Humanitarian Program, or is in the process of seeking asylum and holds a temporary
visa.