More outside-school-hours care for local schools

Axedale, Elmore and Goornong primary schools will receive up to $75,000 per year over the next three years for their outside-school-hours care services – helping to establish new services and cover the cost of resources or equipment, setup and administration, facility upgrades, small service viability and transport.

These grants will increase the number of schools providing outside-school-hours care by 42.9 per cent in regional Victoria.

This is the second round of grants to be awarded under an $81.7 million investment in the Victorian Budget 2020/21, supporting the establishment of up to 400 new outside-school-hours care services at government schools.

The first round allocated $4.1 million in grants to 53 schools earlier this year, with another two rounds to follow in 2022 and 2023.