The aims and objectives of the Capital Grants program are documented in the publication "Block Grant Authority Administrative Arrangements 2009" which is available below for downloading.

Funds for non-government schools may be allocated in accordance with the Guidelines to:

• investigation of the need for schools, buildings parts of buildings, other facilities or equipment;
• the purchase of land, with buildings or parts of buildings, or in special circumstances, without buildings;
• the planning, erection, alteration extension, demolition (including asbestos removal) or refurbishment of a building, part of a building or other facility including student residential accommodation, and attached supervisors’ quarters;
• the development or preparation of land for building or other purposes;
• the installation or upgrading of water, electricity or any other services;
• the provision of furniture or equipment, including information technology equipment, which should be part of a broader capital project unless special circumstances exist;
• the provision of library materials and the goods for cataloguing a library; or
• payment to a Block Grant Authority for its administrative expenses.

Funds are not available for facilities: 

• which have religious worship as a principal purpose;
  in a co-educational school where the facilities will not, as far as practicable, be equally available to male and female students at the school;
• which provide staff housing for non-government schools other than supervisors' quarters attached to student boarding facilities; or
• where retrospective approval is sought.