Setting up the Building Early Education Fund for Success

Published

Monday, July 14, 2025 - 12:00 PM

The National Child and Family Hubs Network has released a Policy Brief in partnership with the Network's Early Childhood Working Group outlining how the Building Early Education Fund (the Fund) can be leveraged to deliver Integrated Early Childhood Hubs, address inequities, and ensure more children can access what they need to thrive.

The Fund is a valuable opportunity to embed Integrated Early Childhood Hubs (Hubs) as a cornerstone of a connected, equitable early childhood system.

Hubs offer a proven, scalable way to deliver connected, holistic support beyond education alone. Hubs provide high-quality early learning, enable access to wraparound services and supports, and provide opportunities for families to build strong social connections. This helps families to receive the right support, when and where they need it.

Our Brief outlines five key recommendations to ensure the Fund delivers meaningful improvements to children’s health, development, wellbeing and learning—particularly for those experiencing disadvantage:

1. Prioritise investment in areas of high child need.
2. Build more than childcare: invest in integrated Early Childhood Hubs for new services in areas of high child need.
3. Commit to growing a sustainable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Controlled (ACCO) sector, including quarantining reasonable funds for ACCO services.
4. Pair capital investment with ongoing funding for integration enablers and operational viability.
5. Invest in the conditions for partnership.

Read the Policy Brief

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