07 MayDelivering Pre-Prep to children from priority cohort groups
The Department of Education has released a new guide to assist services in delivering Pre-Prep to children from priority cohort groups.
Next year Victorian services will be delivering between 16 and 25 hours of Pre-Prep to children from priority cohort groups.
The resource, ‘Delivering Pre-Prep to children from priority cohorts’ provides guidance to services on programming considerations for priority cohort children, including quality, privacy and inclusion, as they plan for the delivery of Pre-Prep from 2026 onwards.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, children from a refugee or asylum seeker background, and children who have had contact with Child Protection services will have access to Pre-Prep next year, across the state. Any child who was supported by Early Start Kindergarten or Access to Early Learning in their Three-Year-Old Kindergarten year is also eligible for Pre-Prep from 2026.
Services, no matter how many enrolments of children from a priority cohort are expected, should familiarise themselves with the priority cohort rollouts and what to consider.
Services are also encouraged to read the Change Management Toolkit and the ‘Your Guide To’ information sheets on multi-age groups, rotational models, team teaching and teaching longer days.
