The daily rate charged by the childcare service you intend to use

Before we begin

Recognised activity includes paid work, paid and unpaid leave and approved study. For more information, visit 

Recognised activities for Child Care Subsidy - Services Australia


You may be exempt from the Child Care Subsidy activity test if you are the principal carer of your grandchild, unable to work due to a disability or medical condition, or a Carer Payment recipient.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children may be entitled to a minimum of 36 hours of subsidised care, regardless of activity levels. Low income families may be entitled to a minimum of 24 hours of subsidised care per fortnight, regardless of activity levels.
To find out if any other Child Care Subsidy activity test exemptions apply, visit 

Exemptions and Activity level and subsidised care for Child Care Subsidy - Services Australia.

Recognised activities

Annual income is your and your partner’s adjusted taxable income for the whole financial year. For more information, visit 

Your income can affect Child Care Subsidy - Child Care Subsidy - Services Australia

Family's estimates annual income

About this tool

This quick and easy Child Care Subsidy calculator tool helps you find out what your family might pay for early childhood education and care.

For a more comprehensive estimate across a range of payments, including Child Care Subsidy, Family Tax Benefit and Income Support Payments, see 

Services Australia's Payment and Service Finder.

What is the Child Care Subsidy

Who can receive the Child Care Subsidy

Eligibility and entitlement

Recent changes

Find the right early learning service based on fees, vacancies, quality ratings and inclusions.

Looking for quality early childhood education and care?

Child Care Subsidy rates are changing soon. 

From 5 January 2026, the Child Care Subsidy (CCS) activity test is changing.

The amount of Child Care Subsidy you get depends on your circumstances. These estimates are based on the information you provide. To learn more go to 

Child Care Subsidy Calculator

Services are given a rating for each NQS quality area and an overall NQS service quality rating based on these results. The overall rating provides a snapshot of how the service is performing.

Learn more about the assessment and ratings process

Overall rating

Assessment and Ratings Process

Approved children's education and care services across Australia are assessed and rated by their state and territory regulatory authority. The NQS is part of the National Regulations and includes seven quality areas that are important to children's learning and developmental outcomes.

Service Quality Ratings

Last visited by regulatory authority

State and territory regulatory authorities visit services to undertake quality assessment and rating, support quality improvement, monitor compliance, and investigate complaints and incidents.

Regulatory activities

Conditions are an additional requirement that services or providers must comply with.

Conditions

Learn more about enforcement actions here

These are actions taken by the State or Territory regulatory authorities when a service is found to be not complying with National Health and Safety regulations. These actions range in severity and are designed to improve and ensure children’s safety and wellbeing.

What is an enforcement action?

The regulatory authority may amend the provider or service’s approval to operate.

Compliance notices or directions include formal instructions for a service to rectify compliance issues.

Conditions placed on a service or provider approval require the service or provider to undertake specific actions to be compliant.

 – Emergency action notices require immediate steps to be taken by the provider to address serious risks at a service.

 – Enforceable undertakings are legally binding agreements that can be made between a regulatory authority and an approved provider or an individual. They set out what that approved provider or individual agrees to do or refrain from doing to comply with the National Law.

 – In extreme cases, the provider or service may temporarily lose their approval to operate.

What are the different enforcement actions?

For more details, ask your service for their record of compliance with the Education and Care Services National Law.

Definitions

. They may be awaiting assessment rating under the National Quality Framework (NQF). To find out more, contact the service provider directly.

Out of scope

This service is not yet rated by the National Quality Standard (NQS).

This service does not operate under the National Quality Framework and is therefore not assessed against the National Quality Standard or receive a NQS quality rating. 

They may be subject to other regulatory systems or frameworks. To find out more, contact the service provider directly.

This service is not operating under the National Quality Standard (NQS).

For fee and inclusions information, please contact the service directly.

Fees

Fees over time

Shows if the service has vacancies this week. Please contact the service to confirm age group and permanent/casual intake.

General Vacancy

For vacancies information, please contact the service directly.

Date	Mon 8/12	Tue 9/12	Wed 10/12	Thu 11/12	Fri 12/12	Sat 13/12	Sun 14/12
Casual	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Permanent	No	No	No	No	No	No	No

Date	Casual	Permanent
Mon 8/12	Yes	No
Tue 9/12	Yes	No
Wed 10/12	Yes	No
Thu 11/12	Yes	No
Fri 12/12	Yes	No
Sat 13/12	No	No
Sun 14/12	No	No

Date	Mon 8/12	Tue 9/12	Wed 10/12	Thu 11/12	Fri 12/12	Sat 13/12	Sun 14/12
Casual	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Permanent	No	No	No	No	No	No	No

Date	Casual	Permanent
Mon 8/12	Yes	No
Tue 9/12	Yes	No
Wed 10/12	Yes	No
Thu 11/12	Yes	No
Fri 12/12	Yes	No
Sat 13/12	No	No
Sun 14/12	No	No


Full day session	Hourly
-	$12.50
Inclusions	Inclusions
None

Kids Of The Castle Occasional Care Centre

Key information

Contact information

Opening hours

Quality

Overall rating

This service is not operating under the National Quality Standard (NQS).

Regulatory activities

Vacancies

Fees

Fees

Fees over time