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Maureen Dettre

NSW to launch year of free child care

The $5.9 billion 10-year investment in universal pre-kindergarten was the centrepiece of the NSW 2022-23 budget. Photo: TND

A landmark program introducing universal free childcare the year before NSW children start school will be rolled out  in 2023, with “childcare deserts” the first to benefit.

Premier Dominic Perrottet said families in Mount Druitt in Sydney’s west, Wagga Wagga in the Riverina, Kempsey and Nambucca in the north, Bourke in the far west, and Cobar and Coonamble the central west would be first to get on board with the program.

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