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Early learning gets $715 million commitment in SA budget to deliver preschool for three-year-olds

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Almost three quarters of a billion dollars will be sunk into early childhood learning in South Australia as the state moves to implement the recommendations of the recent royal commission, including the rollout of universal preschool for three-year-olds.

The upcoming SA budget has set aside $715 million over five years to implement the recommendations of the early learning royal commission.The government says two pilot sites will be set up next year to allow a rollout of preschool for three-year-olds from 2026 to 2032.

The Royal Commission into Early Childhood Education and Care, led by former prime minister Julia Gillard, released its final report last year, after being tasked with finding how to deliver Labor's election promise for three-year-old preschool from 2026.It said it would establish two pilot sites next year for preschool for children aged three and four, and then phase in the availability of preschool places for three-year-olds, based on location and other factors, over six years until 2032.

"The children who are attending … preschool today could be building the nuclear submarines of the future, providing we invest in them," he said.

 

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