Student Resource Package – Core Student Learning Allocation Funding (Student-Based Funding)

Approved Early Education Program (Reference 7)

A defined group of specialist schools deliver group-based early education programs for young children who have a disability or developmental delay between the ages of 2 years and 8 months and 4 years and 8 months, at 1 January of that year. In addition, Aurora School provides services from birth. Funding is allocated at a school level.

Eligibility

Schools must operate a department-approved Early Education Program to be eligible for funding. For further details, including a list of relevant schools, see the Early Education Programs PAL page.

Calculation

Approved Early Education funding is calculated as:

Agreed FTE at school level × Funding rate

Note: Furlong Park School for Deaf Children is the exception.

Funding is calculated at the Indicative budget cycle. Funding is allocated through credit and cash funding.

Rates 2025

Funding rate = $30,446 and Furlong Park School for Deaf Children rate: $37,220