Wednesday, 28 August 2024

 Sam GROTH (Nepean) (14:53): (784) My constituency question is to the Minister for Children in the other place. I have been contacted by parents from Sorrento kindergarten concerned that children attending the centre may be displaced and other local children may miss out altogether. Currently five of the 50 children in the four-year-old program are repeating, meaning that only 45 students from the 50 coming up from the three-year-old year level will be able to move into that class. With the centre being capped at 50 students for each of those programs, parents now face the likelihood that their children will be displaced from the centre entirely. Many of these students who have missed out on a place next year are local families of the area and have had siblings that have attended the kindergarten. Some families from further afield have been offered places while locals have missed out. So my question is: will the minister step in and guarantee that local families in Sorrento, including those already enrolled at the centre, will not miss out on a place next year?