A 118-place kindergarten will be built in Sunbury’s Everley estate.
Announced on Thursday, February 13, the state government will fund $4.5 million towards building the $16 million Jacksons Creek Community Centre.
The government said the project forms part of a partnership with Hume council which now includes six new and expanded kindergartens, and aims to create 450 kindergarten places [for] families across Hume, while providing essential access to child, family and community services in growing suburbs.
Children Minister Lizzie Blandthorn said that more kindergarten places means more play-based learning opportunities for children and families, including in Sunbury,
Sunbury MP Josh Bull said the new centre will bring “vital services closer to home” and create a “world-class early learning facility that will benefit our community for generations to come”.
The facility will include two kindergarten rooms and maternal and child health rooms
He said that across the state, the program aims to build the kindergartens at or near new primary schools to make “the transition easier for many children, and the drop-off simpler for some parents.”
