Toward Q2
Under the Toward Q2 strategy, the Queensland Government will establish an additional 240 kindergarten services by 2014. This is part of an initiative to provide all Queensland children with access to high-quality early education before they start school.
The extra kindergartens will cater for the 12,000 children not currently accessing any centre-based early education or care services in Queensland.
The Queensland Government project will be delivered in partnership with the Australian Government over the next six years.
As part of the Queensland and Australian Governments' Partnership Agreement on Early Childhood Education, Queensland will receive $252 million in Commonwealth funding over the next five years to help build a world class early childhood education system.
Under this agreement and the Toward Q2 strategy, the Queensland Government is committed to:
- increasing the enrolments of children at kindergarten in a variety of settings, particularly in long day care
- lifting delivery to 15 hours a week from the current rate of around 12.8 hours a week
- taking action to improve attendance especially for disadvantaged and Indigenous children
- progressively increasing the number of early childhood trained teachers
- engaging with the child care sector to ensure delivery meets the needs of parents.
The early childhood education initiative will build on the State Government's successful introduction of the Prep year in 2007.
For more details on these developments in early childhood, download the Delivering world class education - starting early 
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document or visit the Toward Q2 Tomorrow's Queensland website .
For more information on the National Partnership Agreement on Early Childhood Education visit the website
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