Plans

The purpose-built Early Learning and Care Centre will be developed on existing land at The Infants' Home grounds in Ashfield. It will be a place:

• where children gain the best opportunities early in life
• designed to meet the complex needs of our community’s most vulnerable families
• where each child’s unique potential is nurtured

The next century of care and education

The centre will comprise many support services for vulnerable children and their families, or for those with special or complex needs. It will include:

• a clinic specialising in paediatric health
• therapy and counseling rooms
• play and sleep areas
• research and training facilities for early childhood educators
• a family information area
• meeting spaces for the general community

An artist's impression of the new centre, with historic Gorton House on the left.

Our new hub of integrated early childhood services will make it more cost-effective to deliver specialist programs and ensure that each child receives the care and attention they need to flourish.

This new centre will have the potential to train new educators from universities and colleges around the country; and house a facility for research and education, complete with viewing areas and training spaces.