New Child Care Subsidy data: September quarter 2025

This content was published on Friday 19 December 2025. There may be more recent updates available.

We’ve published data about the Child Care Subsidy (CCS) in the September quarter 2025.

Each quarter we issue a summary report about CCS-approved care in Australia. The report includes data on child care usage, services, fees and subsidies in Australia.

Key findings from the September quarter 2025 include:

  • 1,451,860 children from 1,020,930 families used CCS-approved care
  • 15,300 CCS-approved services operated during the quarter
  • on average, children attended 27.4 hours of care per week
  • the average hourly fee was $13.65
  • the Australian Government paid $4.02 billion in subsidies.

Go to the September quarter 2025 report.