Childcare featured prominently at last year's National Day Rally speech. In it, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong pledged that the Government would provide more childcare places, and more quality kindergartens, and produce better-trained pre-school teachers with the setting up of a new national institute for the profession.
He said that about 40,000 childcare places will be added by 2022, and the Ministry of Education (MOE) will run 50 kindergartens by 2023. This scaling up would give the ministry the ability to exercise greater influence over the kindergarten sector and raise standards.
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