Tuesday, 27 May 2025

St Kilda & Balaclava Kindergarten

Ryan BATCHELOR (Southern Metropolitan) (19:45): (1655) My adjournment matter tonight is to the Minister for Children. Minister, last year you joined me on a visit to the St Kilda & Balaclava Kindergarten in Balaclava, which for 110 years has been providing fantastic kindergarten services to local families in some beautiful, historic facilities that, whilst wonderful when they were built 100 years ago, are starting to show their age. A $750,000 grant from the state government out of the Building Blocks program was provided in 2023–24 to redevelop, to modernise and to create some new learning spaces. The action that I seek is an update on the progress of this upgrade and modernisation of the St Kilda & Balaclava Kindergarten and whether the project is on track for completion as intended in 2025.