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Hornery, Sonia to the
Minister for Education
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- When will the Government release the new early childhood education funding
schedule?
- How much money was the State Government allocated by the Federal Government
under the National Partnership Agreement on Universal Access to Early Childhood
Education?
- How much of this allocation has the Government spent?
- Where has the Government spent this allocation?
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Answer -
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- The final detail of the new funding model for community preschools will be
released later this year.
- NSW was allocated $278.6 million under the National Partnership on Early
Childhood Education which ran over five years.
- and (4) Commonwealth funding over the course of the National Partnership on
Early Childhood Education has been used to support universal access to
preschool for children in the year before they start formal schooling.
In
the first three years of the National Partnership, Commonwealth funding was
used to support the State's universal access goals through increasing the
renewable funding provided to community preschools and providing a one-off
contribution to the cost of employing early childhood teachers.
Funding
from the fourth year of the Agreement has been divided between a range of
strategic initiatives that support the early childhood sector and the
Government's proposed reform of the community preschool funding system.
Initiatives include $20 million for community preschools to reduce fees; $5
million in capital funding for eligible preschools to expand and offer more
preschool places; and a range of projects such as scholarships for early
childhood teaching and trials of cluster management approaches.
As payment
of National Partnership funding in 2012⁄13 was delayed by the
Commonwealth, unspent funding has been rolled over. Unspent Commonwealth
funding will be directed to the new community preschool funding model and
related National Partnership projects.
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Question asked on 27 August 2013 (session 55-1)
and printed in
Questions & Answers Paper No. 172
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Answer received on 1 October 2013
and printed in
Questions & Answers Paper No. 181
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