NSW Labor is demanding the Berejiklian Government deliver on its election promise to provide an Out of School Hours Care (OOSH) placement for every NSW public school child who needs one by 2021.



Today the Premier announced the Government will spend $20 million to launch OOSH hubs across 47 schools by mid-2021. This is well under their 2019 election promise to spend $120 million to provide all students a place by 2021.



The Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Learning Jodie Harrison said todays announcement is an admission of failure: Yet again this Government has overpromised and underdelivered, Ms Harrison said.



Working families are missing out on desperately needed before and after school care.



Families living in metropolitan areas are still having to cobble together before and after school care arrangements just so they can get to work.



Ms Harrison said the situation is particularly dire in regional NSW.



This Government says it cares about people living in regional areas, but when it comes to before and after school care, regional people have been left high and dry, she said.



In many regional centres there is no before and after school care at all, and where it does exist, the waiting list can be years long.