Fee support for NSW preschoolers in $1.4 billion program | AlexSmithSMH
Parents who send their preschoolers to long day-care will for the first time receive subsidies from the NSW government, with fee relief for four- and five-year-olds being extended to privately run centres.
Premier Dominic Perrottet at the Goodstart Early Education centre in West Ryde. The NSW government will offer fee relief for preschoolers as part of its push to make childcare more affordable and accessible.The subsidies will not be means-tested and will be based on the number of hours of attendance.
As part of the package, there will also be up to $4000 per year in fee relief for three-, four- and five-year-olds attending community or mobile preschools funded by the NSW Department of Education. However, the government will also offer some fee relief to parents who send their children to long day care centres with preschool programs. Long day-care fees are often higher than preschools.
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