Additional funding for early childhood education will be a key part of the June 20 state budget.
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Goulburn MP Pru Goward announced the upcoming state budget would include benefits for early childhood education.
Ms Goward said there would be additional funding for community preschools and long day care services announced in the June 20 budget.
She said there would be an additional $217 million for the Start Strong reforms.
“This investment in the 2017-18 Budget is additional to the initial $115 million Start Strong commitment, delivering an historic investment in early childhood.
“This is a government that is continuing to back our kids with every single preschool across the electorate to benefit from this ongoing funding.
Start Strong links needs-based funding to 600 hours of enrolment in quality education in the year before school to ensure more children participate.
“This unprecedented investment means community preschools and long day care services will be funded through to 2021 at these new higher Start Strong levels,” Ms Goward said.
Since the launch of Start Strong in January 2017, she said more than half of all community preschools in NSW had changed their business model in response to the new funding program.
