Extra support for new Kadina childcare hub

The integrated hub will bring together health, wellbeing and early education services to help provide children and families with the support they need in one place.

The Malinauskas Government is investing an additional $1 million in the project to enable Kadina Child Care Centre to deliver the extra services and programs. This brings the state’s contribution to $4.4 million for the $12 million centre, which is jointly funded through $5 million from the Commonwealth’s $1 billion Building Early Education Fund, $2.3 million from Coaxial and $300,000 from the Kadina Child Care Centre.

The Copper Coast Council is providing the land for the new hub. A sod turn today will mark the start of construction, with Kadina Child Care Centre set to relocate to a new and expanded site on Bute Road once the project is completed. The hub is expected to open in early 2028. The new facility will create an extra 109 places – boosting capacity to 162 early learning places – and help meet growing demand in the region. The hub will combine the Flying Start 3-year-old preschool, long day care, child health and development services, parenting programs and community co-designed supports.

An expanded preschool program of up to 30 hours per week will be provided to improve children’s learning and development outcomes. Additional facilities, including a community room, consulting rooms and meeting spaces, will support improved access to high-quality, evidence-informed services. The Malinauskas Government is establishing 20 integrated hubs across the state as part of our $1.9 billion Flying Start early childhood reforms. premier.sa.gov.au

Kadina Child Care Centre is a community-based not-for-profit provider with a long history of delivering high-quality early childhood education and care in the region. The service won the Warm and Welcoming Award at the inaugural Flying Start Early Childhood Awards, an acknowledgement of their strong community links.

Quotes attributable to Lucy Hood

We are stepping up our significant investment in Kadina even further to expand vital supports and help families with quality early learning services across the region. Our integrated hubs are making a difference where families need them most, giving their kids the best possible start to their education. A new and expanded service will support more families returning to work and more local children to learn, grow and thrive.

Quotes attributable to Kadina Child Care Centre Director Caren Hammerstein

As a Flying Start integrated hub, we are excited to be able to provide families with additional supports and programs in our new expanded centre. We look forward to working with the children and families across our community to design these supports together and are already building relationships to start this process.

Quotes attributable to Kadina parent Amanda Larwood

We are incredibly grateful to be a part of the Kadina Child Care Centre. Their commitment to education, care and support that they have provided to our daughter has been instrumental to her success and progress in all areas of her early years development. I cannot wait to see all of the amazing impacts the development of the new hub is going to have for our children, families and wider community.