Details of Financial Assistance Schemes
| Financial Assistance Schemes | Objectives | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten and Child Care Centre Fee Remission Scheme (KCFRS) | To provide needy families with financial assistance in the form of fee remission to alleviate their financial burden of providing pre-primary education for their children. | Kindergarten Note 1 or Child Care Centre Note 2 students |
| Grant for School-related Expenses for Kindergarten Students (Grant-KG) | To provide a grant to needy families to defray school-related expenses incurred from the students’ kindergarten education | Kindergarten Note 1 students |
To apply for financial assistance for pre-primary level students for the 2023/24 school year, the student-applicants must be at least 2 years and 8 months old as at 31 August 2023 (i.e. born on or before 31 December 2020) and attending nursery (K1), lower (K2) or upper (K3) classes in kindergartens registered with the Education Bureau (EDB). #
Those who were born on or after 1 January 2021 are not eligible to apply for the KCFRS for kindergarten classes in the 2023/24 school year, even when they reach the age of 3 during the school year. Their parents should submit applications in the 2024/25 school year instead.
The kindergarten should be a non-profit-making kindergarten, offering local curriculum under the kindergarten education scheme (hereafter referred as KG scheme). #
Parents may refer to the EDB’s website for information on the list of kindergartens under the KG scheme by districts in the 2023/24 school year.
If a kindergarten is going to withdraw from the KG scheme in the 2023/24 school year, those eligible students admitted before this school year and remaining in the K2 and K3 classes in the 2023/24 school year and K3 classes in the 2024/25 school year in that kindergarten will continue to be eligible for applying financial assistance for pre-primary students until the end of operation of all eligible classes or the students concerned leave the kindergarten (whichever is the earlier).
Student-applicants (groups aged 0-2 and 2-3) must receive whole-day care services in the child care centres (i.e. day crèches, day nurseries or kindergarten-cum-child care centres) registered with Social Welfare Department (SWD).
To learn more, you may refer to the presentation document on the financial assistance for pre-primary students for the 2023/24 school year.