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The Government has announced funding of $9 million over two years to develop nine new early childhood education services on existing school sites in south Auckland.
Education Minister Chris Carter said early childhood education participation rates were lower in the Counties Manukau area than in other parts of the country.
He said the services provided by the funding would be a new type of government-sponsored early childhood education projects and would provide a maximum of 450 places for children not currently participating.
The education ministry would work with school boards of trustees and organisations that operated the services to ensure they attracted and retained children from the target communities, he said.
- NZPA
