AN ANNOUNCEMENT on building the Loddon Shire’s first child care centre is close.
A contract is believed to have been signed for the centre the State Government will build at Wedderburn College.
The centre will provide long day care and three- and four-year-old kindergarten programs.
Scheduled to open for the 2026 school year, the facility’s interim name is Early Learning Victoria Wedderburn although current government policy is for centres to have an indigenous  name.
Wedderburn parents led a community campaign, backed by the college, for the centre. The shire is currently in a child care desert.
Inglewood and District Community Bank has put $250,000 on the table to establish a centre in that town.