Kinder Enrolments Being Made Easier For Victorian Families

The State Government is making it easier for Victorian families to secure a kinder place. Minister for Early Childhood Ingrid Stitt today announced 41 local government areas will receive Central Enrolment Development Grants worth $720,000.

Seven councils will use the funds to establish a central enrolment scheme ‒ in time for the roll-out of funded Three-Year-Old Kindergarten across Victoria. Ms Stitt told said to Wyndham Review and others, “We know that two years are better than one when it comes to kindergarten, which is why we’re investing nearly $5 billion to roll out funded Three-Year-Old Kindergarten across Victoria over the next ten years.”

“We are simplifying the process to make it easier for parents and families to enrol their child in kindergarten and helping all families find a kinder place.”

Central enrolment makes it easier for parents to secure a kinder place by allowing parents to register their interest in enrolling their child in more than one service, without having to contact multiple centres.

The Kindergarten Central Enrolment program provides grants to councils to establish, expand or enhance central enrolment schemes in their community.

Councils can apply for up to $60,000 to implement a scheme or up to $10,000 to expand or enhance an existing scheme to support the statewide roll-out of universal Three-Year-Old Kindergarten in 2022.

In an Australian first, the Labor Government is investing almost $5 billion to deliver 15 hours of funded three-year-old kindergarten programs to children in Victoria by 2029.

Three-Year-Old Kindergarten has now been rolled out across 21 local government areas and will expand across the rest of the state in 2022.