The NSW Liberals are calling on the Labor Government to come clean with NSW families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Liberal Leader Mark Speakman said the Government should tell kids and parents why it\u2019s looking to cancel vouchers and increase cost-of-living pressures on them at the worst possible time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAt the previous election NSW Labor was upfront about its plans to cancel Active Kids, but they said nothing at this election,\u201d said Mr Speakman. \u201cIf they were planning to scrap the program, they should have been honest with NSW families.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Active Kids has been a very popular and successful measure implemented by the Coalition Government, giving kids who may have otherwise missed out an opportunity to participate in sport and helping with their physical and mental health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the start of this year more than 4.85 million vouchers had been redeemed, saving families $481 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe want to see this program continue for NSW families, helping to take the pressure of family budgets and helping our kids get active.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhile kids in other states get to enjoy similar programs, it seems that in order to pay for the demands of union bosses the NSW Government will make families and businesses foot the bill.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The NSW Liberals are calling on the Labor Government to come clean with NSW families. Liberal Leader Mark Speakman said the Government should tell kids and parents why it\u2019s looking to cancel vouchers and increase cost-of-living pressures on them at the worst possible time. \u201cAt the previous election NSW Labor was upfront about its plans … Continue reading “Liberals standing up for NSW families”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21060,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21059\/revisions\/21060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}