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Ministry of Education (MOE) kindergartens, first set up in 2014, set aside a third of their places for children from lower-income backgrounds.
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Earlier this year, Mrs Gwendolyn Tan's youngest daughter, two, started attending a government-supported pre-school in Jurong.
It costs her $800 a month for full-day childcare - about 10 per cent of the family's monthly expenditure.
