Victorian Labor
Party policy · Kinder & childcare
Free Kinder and 25 more school-based kinders
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What is being promised
Continue Free Kinder for three- and four-year-olds, and open 25 more kinders on school sites by 2028.
How it is intended to work
State-funded kinder programs; co-locating kinders with primary schools.
Who may be affected
- Families with young children
- Kinder providers
- Announced cost
- Not stated in the captured passage
- Funding mechanism
- Not stated in the captured passage
- Proposed timeline
- By 2028
Party saysArguments offered by Labor
- Says 25 more school-based kinders will open by 2028.
Independent evidence
Important uncertainties
- Free Kinder is an existing program; the school-based kinders are an existing government plan rather than a new election commitment.
Positions on key approaches
Kinder and early learning should be free.
Supports. Free Kinder for three- and four-year-olds.
More kinders should be built on school sites.
Supports. 25 more by 2028.