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MINISTER FOR HOUSING AND COMMUNITY SERVICES

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

Question No 302

Child-care Places - Tuggeranong

Mrs Carnell - asked the Minister for Housing and Community Services -

(1) What is the Government doing to increase child

care places and facilities in Tuggeranong.

(2) How many new childcare places were generated in Tuggeranong over the last financial year.

(3) What specific initiatives were put in place during the last financial year to increase childcare places in Tuggeranong.

(4) How many childcare places in Tuggeranong exist

at the present time.

(5) In which Tuggeranong suburbs are these childcare places located.

(6) How many of these places are occasional care and how many are long day care.

Mr. Connolly - the answer to the Members question is as follows:

(1) The Governments plans to increase childcare places in Tuggeranong include two new child care facilities to be built in this financial year; twenty new occasional care places in an unused wing of Taylor Pre School, ten new occasional care and fifteen long day care places at a new neighbourhood house in Conder. The new occasional care places will be jointly funded under the National Child Care Strategy. Provision of further long day care places in Tuggeranong is being negotiated in the extension to the National Child Care Strategy. The Government will also encourage provision of employer supported and commercial child care facilities in Tuggeranong.

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