Spotswood will be the home of the second Western Bulldogs Community Childcare Centre in the west with the announcement that a re-elected Brumby Labor Government will commit up to $1 million in funding to redevelop the local RSL branch into a community hub.   

Member for Williamstown, Wade Noonan MP made the funding announcement today at the Mary Street site. 

Under the plan, the Spotswood/South Kingsville RSL building would be converted to allow for a variety of community-based facilities and services including:

•    Integrated early years services and at least 60 new long day care places; and
•    a new home for the RSL sub-branch that would allow welfare services to be better tailored to meet the needs of the local veterans community.

Western Bulldogs Chief Executive, Campbell Rose said that “this is a significant initiative for the development of high quality, not-for-profit childcare services in the region and further strengthens the successful initiative of the Bulldogs first childcare centre at the Whitten Oval.”

“We’ve modelled these plans on success of the Susan Alberti Western Bulldogs Community Childcare Centre at Whitten Oval and will now replicate this at this new site.

“Like the Whitten Oval redevelopment, this site will become a community hub, and uniquely draw together veterans and local families” Rose said.

Through a unique partnership, the site may also become the new home for Early Childhood Management Services (ECMS), Victoria’s largest provider of not-for-profit early years services, and separately, Taralye, a leading provider of support services for hearing impaired children.