Childcare spending ‘lessens violence’
PA Wellington Spending more money on early childhood education would help lessen violence in society, says the Kindergarten Teachers’ Association.
In a submission to the Committee of Inquiry into Violence, the association said research showed that children who had preschool education were less likely to be arrested for juvenile crime, less likely to drop out of school, and more likely to find work.
Money invested in early childhood education would save the Government considerably more in legal and social welfare costs.
The association argued that its funding was inadequate. Kindergarten teachers and child-care workers needed longer training, and the same salaries and conditions of service as other teachers. The teacher-child ratio in kindergartens also needed to be improved, it said.
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Press, 16 July 1986, Page 28
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