New ECEC service to be constructed in Cowra

The New South Wales Government is handing over management and use of a 10,550 square metre site in Short Street, Cowra to establish a new pre-school and early childhood precinct.

 

Crown Lands cleaned up the former Essential Energy depot by removing 10 old building structures before handing the site keys to its new manager, Cowra Early Childhood Services Co-Operative Ltd (CECS), with 800 tonnes of concrete, 60 tonnes of building material, 43 tonnes of steel and 8 tonnes of mixed waste removed from the site. 

 

The land will be used to build a new 60-place preschool to support up to 150 children a week and, over time, consolidate its many services into a centralised childhood education and care precinct for Cowra.

 

CECS has been in operation since the 1950s and currently provides early and middle childhood education and care services to more than 500 families. It employs 64 educators and staff and operates a long day care service, out of school hours care services, family day care through 17 residential services, and mobile long day care and preschool services at a range of sites.

 

“We are delighted to be appointed to manage and use the Short Street land as our services are close to capacity and we are facing expanding waiting lists,” said Cowra Early Childhood Services Co-Operative General Manager Libby Ewing-Jarvie.

 

“The site and its surrounds are in a natural environment close to Billy Goat Hill Nature Reserve so also has potential for bush kinder and bush tucker programs to create a new level of active learning allowing children to get directly involved in their surroundings.”

 

Learn more about CECS here.