SINGAPORE - More parents can save on pre-school fees in 2021, as the fee cap for centres under the government-funded partner operator scheme will be lowered, and more centres may come under the scheme.
The Early Childhood Development Agency announced on Friday that applications are now open for pre-schools interested in being partner operators from 2021 to 2025. ECDA said it aims to have more centres come under the partner operator scheme after the current five-year term, which has 250 centres among 23 partner operators on board, ends in December 2020.ECDA said the number of new operators that it would be taking on board is not fixed.
There are five anchor operators in Singapore, who receive more funding and follow lower fee caps of $720, $1,275 and $160 for full-day childcare, full-day infant care and kindergarten respectively. It also said that in the medium term, full-day pre-school expenses should be brought down to around $300 a month, which is about the same as the cost of primary school plus after-school student care before means-tested subsidies.
It has four centres here with more than 400 children, with fees at three of them at $850 for full-day childcare, and about $1,300 for one of them.
Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)
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