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NSW Election 2003 [Return to main Election 2003 page]
Children and Young People
NCOSS believes that the role of the State Government in children's services must be to ensure that the services it funds assist disadvantaged children and families. It also has a brief, since the complete withdrawal of the Commonwealth from pre-school funding in 1985, to fund the educational component of early childhood services.
Who Sank the Boat? [300kb pdf download]
Cartoon by Stephen Crowley c 2002The impact of under funding on community based preschools in NSW.

This document has been prepared by a working party from the NSW Children's Services Forum to help inform politicians, the community and government officers about the impact of poor policy, planning and funding for community based preschools in New South Wales.

Issues covered include:

  • Affordability
  • Access and equity
  • Rural issues
  • Impacts on quality
  • The social and economic values of preschools in local communities
  • Case Studies

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