expansion efforts should do more to build on the existing capacity in primary schools as a means to expand access in underserved remote rural regions the new child identifier should be used to ensure that care sendees provided for children over the age of four complement but do not replace participation in preschool more emphasis needs to be given to developing the capacity of teachers to implement the new preschool curriculum in particular in the domain of early literacy this will require both a review of initial teacher education programmes and more inservice training opportunities together with measures to reduce childteacher ratios where this is an issue and provide more reading resources