In 2022, two years of funded kindergarten programs will be available across Victoria. This means families can access government-subsidised play-based learning programs from when their child turns three years old.
Funded Three-Year-Old Kindergarten is new in 2022 and allows Kindergarten and long day care centres offering a three-year-old kinder program to access 5 hours of a funded kindergarten program each week. The Four-Year-Old Kindergarten program allows 15 hours a week of government subsidised kindergarten, delivered in the year before a child goes to school.