• increase the discretionary grants available to communities for building or upgrading early childhood facilities in order to increase participation rates. • increase early childhood grants to enable salaries of early childhood teachers to be equivalent to those with comparable qualifications and workloads in the compulsory sector. • make top funding rate available to all early childhood centres providing certain quality indicators are achieved.
in favour of environmental protection, e.g. fighting climate change or 'green' policies or preservation of natural resources or animal rights