Tuesday, 5 March 2024

Tarneit electorate early childhood centres

Dylan WIGHT (Tarneit) (19:03): (552) My adjournment this evening is for the Minister for Children, and the action that I seek is for the minister to come to my electorate to visit the new Wimba Primary School Kindergarten and the new Hoppers Crossing Family Centre. Over the previous 10 ‍years this government has ensured that we have turned Victoria into the Education State. Our Best Start, Best Life reforms are going to play a significant role in that, making sure that every child, irrespective of their parent’s pay cheques or their location, will have free access to early childhood learning. But what we have also done is invested in the infrastructure to make sure that we can deliver those incredibly important programs.

My electorate of Tarneit has been incredibly lucky to receive a decent portion of that infrastructure. Take Wimba Primary School Kindergarten for instance – a brand new kindergarten that has opened this year at the new Wimba Primary School making it easier for little preppies to transition from kindergarten to primary school because they are doing so on the same site. It is also easing the burden of drop-off and pick-up times for local families.

There is also the Hoppers Crossing Family Centre which is located in Hoppers Crossing at the site of the old Mossfiel kindergarten. It will include three kindergarten rooms, a large outdoor play space, two maternal and child health and allied health services consulting rooms and other early service amenities. As I said before, it will replace the existing Mossfiel kindergarten. As I said at the start of my contribution, we have as a government spent the last 10 years transforming Victoria into the Education State, and I cannot wait to host the minister in my electorate.