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Kindergarten facilities and capital funding

Information about the Victorian Government’s Best Start, Best Life Infrastructure Strategy.

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Funding is available to plan, build, expand and improve early years infrastructure across Victoria. The aim is to ensure local families can continue to access great local kindergarten programs, no matter where they live.

The Victorian Government has released its Best Start, Best Life Infrastructure Strategy. This comprises a suite of new and expanded grants, programs and policy initiatives designed to support the substantial growth of the Victorian early childhood education and care sector needed to implement the Best Start, Best Life reforms.

For more information, please visit A dynamic, long-term strategy for early childhood infrastructure.

Kindergarten Infrastructure and Services Plans

The Victorian Government wants to co-invest in projects at the right time to make sure providers can meet the demand for Best Start, Best Life reforms and to provide clarity across the sector about which areas in the State need to be prioritised for additional investment. A key part of this will be identifying kindergarten infrastructure need and sharing this information with all our partners.

Prior to the announcement of the Best Start, Best Life reforms in 2022, the department had invited all 79 local governments in Victoria to discuss and agree on a Kindergarten Infrastructure and Services Plan (KISP).

The department is currently updating KISPs with all local governments to include the latest data and incorporate the demand generated by Pre-Prep.

The department will be progressively updating this page with new KISPs as they are agreed with local governments. As new KISPs are agreed, historic editions will be archived.

What is a KISP?

KISPs are documents jointly-agreed between the department and local governments which establish the projected supply and demand of kindergarten infrastructure across the life of the Best Start, Best Life reforms. KISPs are shared publicly to allow the broader sector to understand:

While a KISP is not a funding document and does not commit any party to funding specific projects, it is expected that future investment requests through Building Blocks and decisions about local government or not-for-profit projects would align with the relevant KISP.

The department will consider the entire KISP to fully understand the data regarding the demand for kindergarten and the local context of service delivery, demographics and geography. This information is included in the Local Context section of the KISP and may be referenced by the applicant when addressing criteria as part of a Building Blocks grant application.

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General enquiries

For all general enquiries regarding the KISPs, email: KISP.Records@education.vic.gov.au.

Building Blocks Partnerships

Blocks Partnerships (BBPs) provide an in-principle agreement between the department and local governments, not-for-profit providers, and non-government organisations to co-invest in a pipeline of infrastructure projects to address long-term kindergarten demand resulting from the Best Start, Best Life (BSBL) reforms and identified in KISPs.

By agreeing to a BBP, the department can provide partners with investment certainty through providing in-principle funding support years in advance of when projects are required, streamline the process for approving projects, and offer flexible funding arrangements to allow funding to be moved between agreed projects.

Agreed Building Blocks Partnerships

Ballarat: Statement of Intent

Brimbank: Statement of Intent

Cardinia Shire: Statement of Intent

Darebin: Statement of intent

Edmund Rice Education Australia Victoria Schools (EREA): Statement of Intent

Frankston: Statement of Intent

Golden Plains: Statement of Intent

Hobsons Bay: Statement of Intent

Hume City: Statement of Intent

Latrobe: Statement of Intent

Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools Early Years Education (MACSEYE)

Melton: Statement of Intent

Merri-bek: Statement of Intent

Mitchell Shire: Statement of Intent

Monash: Statement of Intent

Moonee Valley: Statement of Intent

Port Phillip: Statement of Intent

Sandhurst Catholic Early Childhood Education & Care Ltd (SCECEC)

Whittlesea: Statement of Intent

Wyndham: Statement of Intent

Building Blocks grants

Building Blocks Grants contribute to high-quality early years programs by:

Visit the Victorian School Building Authority (VSBA) website to learn more about Building Blocks grants and how to apply.

General enquiries

For all general enquiries regarding the Building Blocks grants:

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Updated 27 March 2026

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