Unsure about your child care options? Use our child care compass to find the right care for your family
Tools for Parents
Use our comprehensive range of tools to help you with all your child care needs.
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Child Care Subsidy Calculator
Child Care Subsidy Calculator
Want to know how much your subsidy entitlement could be? Use our Child Care Subsidy Calculator to learn how much your family could receive.
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Cost of Care
Cost of Care
Need to know how much your child care could cost? Use our child care cost widget to find out.
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Child Care Compass
Child Care Compass
Unsure about your child care options? Use our Child Care Compass to find the best child care for your family.
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Child Care Guide
Child Care Guide
Stressing about child care? Don't! The Careforkids.com.au Child Care Guide is the result of our 15 years' experience.
Child Care Articles & Tips
Read this for an overview of the advantages and disadvantages of the different types of child care options available in Australia.
Tried and tested strategies for ensuring children make a successful transition to child care, what to expect and how to ease the adjustment process.
Parent guilt is common among parents leaving their children in care for the first time; this article outlines what to expect and a range of coping strategies.
How to plan and execute a successful return to work after a period of parental leave including what to expect, how to prepare, child care, work life balance and more.
The Australian Institute of Family Studies Life During COVID-19 report looks at the way Australian parents adapted to life and child care under the lockdown conditions caused by COVID-19.
COVID-19 has taken a toll on the mental health of parents, educators and children. This article describes the range of evidence based support available to support families and early childhood educators.
How educators can support children to learn how to be kind and respectful to one another.
The Child Care Subsidy activity test exemption and how it applies to parents of children in the year before they start primary school.
How parents can take steps to supporting their child’s mental health and emotional wellbeing to build resilience in the early years and beyond.
Research from the Telethon Institute explains why school readiness should also consider a child’s home and family life and the community they grow up in to determine whether they might need support later in life.

Family Benefits and Support
Our child care program gives you access to a Family Benefits and Support initiative designed to help you balance the competing demands of work and family life