Five hundred new preschools will be built throughout New South Wales within the next four years under an election pledge by the Coalition to bring forward $1bn in construction work and have shovels in the ground by the end of the year.
The government will on Tuesday promise to bring forward its $5.8bn universal pre-kindergarten plan to give every child in the state access to a year of free “play-based” learning the year before school by 2030. Victoria made a similar pledge in a joint announcement last year.
