FREE nursery care is to be made available for all three- and four-year-olds in Jersey.
In a number of late pre-election spending promises, the Council of Ministers will announce on Saturday that they want the ‘postcode lottery’ for parents to end and want to make pre-school care free for all.
And it is thought that they also want more money to be invested in the Island’s bus network and extra funding for the enforcement of discrimination law.
The promises follow last week’s decision to scrap GST on essential foods and freeze the duty on road fuel. Ministers decided on the amendments to their own spending plan at last week’s Council of Ministers meeting, but did not want to announce the cuts because of their U-turn on GST.
It is understood that the late amendments to the Business Plan – which sets out departments’
spending plans for 2009 and which will be debated just weeks before the Senatorial election – will be
formally announced on Saturday.
