Introduction

The objectives of the childcare assistance programme are to assist:

• low income parents with pre-school children to enter employment, training or education and
• caregivers and/or children to access licensed childcare centres, family day care projects or chartered Te Kohanga Reo and
• low income parents with school aged children to enter employment or participate in an activity to improve work readiness and
• access approved out of school care and school holiday programmes (OSCAR)

• Childcare Subsidy
• OSCAR Subsidy

Also see:

• Guidelines to financial assistance for childcare costs

Community Services Cards are not automatically issued to clients who get non-beneficiary assistance (unless they get Accommodation Supplement) and they must make a separate application for a card.

Clients who get Accommodation Supplement qualify for a Community Services Card and are sent a card automatically without having to make a separate application. See: