Key information
- Status: Closed
- Grant amount: $7,500
- Application opened: 30 August 2024
- Application closed: 13 September 2024
Program objective
The HDP Grant Round 2 funding aims to support early childhood education and care providers to embed suitable strategies to enable their partnership, and children’s participation, in the HDC Program. The key objective of the HDP Grant is to increase awareness of and engagement with the HDC Program.
This program is administered by Department of Education.
Eligibility
Who can apply
- Multifunctional Aboriginal Children’s Service
- Aboriginal Child and Family Centre
- Aboriginal Controlled Community Organisation
Types of projects funded under this grant
Implementation of the Health and Development Checks in ECEC program before 31st May 2025
What your application needs to include
Prepare your application with this checklist
To be eligible for the HDP Grant, the services must meet all the following criteria:
- Be an approved provider under the Children(Education and Care Services) National Law Act 2010(NSW) and be one of the following:
- Multifunctional Aboriginal Children’s Service*;
- Aboriginal Child and Family Centre*
- Aboriginal Controlled Community Organisation*; and
- Must deliver an early childhood education program to children aged 4 and above.
- Must agree to participate in the HDC Program by 31st May 2025
* An alternative criterion for Multifunctional Aboriginal Children’s Service; Aboriginal Child and Family Centre; Aboriginal Controlled Community Organisation is that they deliver a health and development check through an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation. For the purpose of these Guidelines health and development check through an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation will be deemed to be and should be read as the HDC Program.
Approved providers would need to have an active, up to date account in ECCMs and agree to the Terms and Conditions of the HDP Grant including the acquittals process.
Address the eligibility criteria
Each applicant, as part of an application response, must confirm that they meet the eligibility criteria.
Applicants that do not address the eligibility criteria in full may be excluded from the application process at the department's discretion.
After the application is submitted
Successful applications will be decided by: Executive Director, Strategy and Partnerships, Early Childhood Outcomes, NSW Department of Education
The Department will assess applications and determine funding based on service eligibility (set out at Section 3.1 of the Guidelines), spending rules (Spending rules are defined in Section 5.1 of the Guidelines), program priorities and available funding.
Applications that satisfy the eligibility and spending rules will be approved up to the limit of total available funding.
Support and contact
EarlyChildhoodDevelopment@det.nsw.edu.au