Southern Metropolitan Region
Katherine COPSEY (Southern Metropolitan) (12:52): (1110) My question is to the Minister for Children. In my electorate we are seeing childcare centre after childcare centre under threat of involuntary closure. The future of Windsor Community Children’s Centre is under threat after the government gave Swinburne University permission to sell the land the childcare centre occupies. In Glen Iris the land on which the Gardiner Preschool operates is owned by the Uniting Church and is now being sold to private developers. Minister, these are services that have enough staff but are having their premises sold out from under them. What is the government doing to ensure that both the Windsor Community Children’s Centre and Gardiner Preschool can continue to operate?