Joy Burch has announced money to upgrade childcare centres around town:
Capital upgrades to community childcare centres worth more than $9 million and which will create an extra 173 places were announced today by ACT Minister for Community Services Joy Burch.
“In addition to the increased places this money will help nine childcare centres significantly improve their facilities to meet the requirements of the new National Quality Framework for early childhood education and care which comes into effect from January 2012,” Ms Burch said.
“In doing so we will be creating an additional 173 childcare places, helping more families give their children the best possible start in life.”
Childcare Centre Upgrade Program – Planned Works
|
Centre |
Location |
Current Places |
Additional Places |
Total Places |
Estimated Cost |
|
Black Mountain Children’s Centre |
Braddon |
41 |
12 |
53 |
.740,000 |
|
Campbell Cottage |
Campbell |
57 |
9 |
66 |
.900,000 |
|
Cooinda Cottage |
Charnwood |
57 |
23 |
80 |
.965,000 |
|
Forrest Early Childhood Centre |
Forrest |
46 |
50 |
96 |
1,970,000 |
|
Fyshwick Early Childhood Centre |
Fyshwick |
46 |
18 |
64 |
1,380,000
|
|
Greenway Early Childhood Centre |
Greenway |
62 |
12 |
74 |
.438,000 |
|
Gungahlin Childcare Centre |
Gungahlin |
99 |
40 |
139 |
1,900,000
|
|
Narrabundah Children’s Cottage |
Narrabundah |
36 |
1 |
37 |
.450,000 |
|
Totom House Multicultural Early Childhood Centre |
Kaleen |
52 |
8 |
60 |
.455,000 |
|
|
|
496 |
173 |
669 |
$9,198,000 |
UPDATE: This in from Ms Burch’s office:
Hi John, just to inform your post on the announcement today, the upgrades were only available to childcare centres located in ACT Government-owned facilities (quite a lot of not-for-profit centres occupy government buildings).
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