The state of early childhood education in Singapore was one of the areas reviewed by MSF in a report on family trends.
SINGAPORE - More children are attending pre-school in Singapore in the past decade, and childcare fees have become more affordable.
The current state of early childhood education and support in Singapore was one of the areas reviewed by MSF in anThe Government has taken steps like imposing fee caps and expanding the capacity of pre-school operators in recent years to improve early childhood education in Singapore. MSF said the median infant care fees for children who are Singapore citizens went down slightly from $1,275 in 2019 to $1,235 in 2023, while median childcare fees decreased from $800 to $720 over the same period.
These children typically do not meet developmental milestones, for instance in speech, cognition, social-emotional or physical aspects. Examples of such needs are speech and language delay, global developmental delay and autism spectrum disorder.
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