Child Care Centres in East Coast
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My First Skool @ 77 Centres
| KiddiWinkie Schoolhouse @ East Coast | |||
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| Child Care Address: | 511 East Coast Road, Singapore 429064 | ||
| Full Day Child Care Fee: | 2,000 | ||
| This centre is not an anchor operator nor a partner operator.1 |  Child Care Fees, Review, Teacher to Child Ratio and Other Details of Child Care Centre | ||
| Little Oxford @ SK02 | |||
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| Child Care Address: | 12, KEE SUN AVENUE, SINGAPORE 457037 | ||
| Full Day Child Care Fee: | 1,480 | ||
| This centre is not an anchor operator nor a partner operator.1 | Child Care Fees, Review, Teacher to Child Ratio and Other Details of Child Care Centre | ||
Child Care Centres in East Coast | Best Preschools in East Coast
1(a). What is the Anchor Operator (AOP) scheme?
Answer: It is a scheme by government to provide funding to selected preschool operators to increase access to good quality and affordable early childhood care and education. The selected child care operators will receive funding from government to keep a monthly fee cap of $720 & $1,275 for full-day child care & full-day infant care respectively.
Currently, there as 5 anchor operators which are PCF SPARKLETOTS PRESCHOOL, MY FIRST SKOOL, MY WORLD PRESCHOOL, SKOOL4KIDZ and E-BRIDGE PRE-SCHOOL.
1(b). What is the Partner Operator (POP) scheme?
Answer: This scheme supports selected preschool operators to improve the accessibility, affordability and quality of child care and infant care. Under this scheme, selected preschools are to keep a monthly school fee cap of $760 and $1,300 for full day child care and infant care respectively.
Currently, there are 331 preschols undere this scheme.
2. Basic Subsidy For Child Care
| Service Type | Monthly subsidy for working mother or single fathers | Subsidy for Non-working mother/single father |
| Full-day child care | $300 | $150 |
Table: Child Care Subsidy
3. Additional Subsidy for Child Care and Infant Care
This is available to applicants for Singapore Citizen children who are working and whose monthly household income is less than $12,000. Please check Child care and infant care subsidy for more details.
4. Start-Up Grant
This is for low-income families with difficult family circumstances. Applicants can use Start-Up Grant to pay for the initial costs of enrolling their child into an infant or child care centre.
5. Review of Child Care Centre
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6. Child Care Centre Open House
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7. What is the regulatory requirements governing staff-child ratios?
Answer: With effect from 1 Jan 2012, the following staff-child ratio will apply:
| Age of Children (Class Level) | Staff to Children Ratio (without para-educators/educarers) | Staff to Children Ratio (with para-educators/educarers) |
| 18 – 30 mths (Playgroup) | 1 : 8 | 1 + 1 : 12 |
| 30 – 36 mths (Nursery 1) | 1 : 12 | 1 + 1 : 18 |
| 36 – 48 mths (Nursery 2) | 1 : 15 | 1 + 1 : 20 |
| 48 – 60 mths (Kindergarten 1) | 1 : 20 | 1 + 1 : 30 |
| 60 – 72 mths (Kindergarten 1) | 1 : 25 | 1 + 1 : 30 |