Thursday, 24 March 2022

Eastern Metropolitan Region

Mr BARTON (Eastern Metropolitan) (12:44): (1719) My question is for Minister Stitt. I have been contacted by a constituent who supports the Victorian government’s commitment to providing three-year-old kinder. However, they are concerned about the infrastructure available to the City of Knox being insufficient to meet the leap in demand. My understanding is that funding available to address this infrastructure gap covers only 9 to 16 per cent of the cost of building projects to increase the number of kindergarten places. There is a concern here that eligible children may miss out, so the information I seek is: has the government completed any modelling that compares existing kinder places to the projected demand after offering three-year-old kinder to all families in Knox?