School Readiness Funding
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Approved for funding
Building capacity for our kinder children
Elles Belles Early Learning has been approved for School Readiness Funding, a permanent and ongoing component of the Victorian kindergarten funding model. The School Readiness Funding supports programs that build the capacity of kindergarten services, educators and families to enhance children’s learning and developmental outcomes further.
How it works
The funding year, step by step
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An annual plan per service
Elles Belles Early Learning will submit an annual School Readiness Funding Plan for each of our managed services.
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Built on real data
These annual plans draw on local and service-level data to determine the needs of each service, with data sourced from the Australian Early Development Census (AEDC).
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Reviewed and acquitted
A mid-year review and end-of-year acquittal will be submitted for each service annually, confirming how School Readiness Funding has been utilised.
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Allocated by need
The amount of School Readiness Funding each service receives is based on the level of need of the children enrolled at the service.
Parental data collection
Why we collect family information
It is crucial for Elles Belles Early Learning to accurately collect parents’ occupation and education information each year as part of the enrolment process.
This information is essential for the Department to understand the educational needs of children and services across Victoria and to determine future funding allocations. Parental occupation and education data (Student Family Occupation and Education data, or SFOE) is considered an accurate predictor of educational disadvantage and is similarly used in schools to allocate needs-based funding.
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