{"id":869,"date":"2018-11-29T02:53:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T02:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=869"},"modified":"2018-11-29T02:53:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T02:53:49","slug":"nsw-creative-kids-program-a-step-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2018\/11\/29\/nsw-creative-kids-program-a-step-closer\/","title":{"rendered":"NSW CREATIVE KIDS PROGRAM A STEP CLOSER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NSW families will soon be able to access the new $100 Creative Kids voucher unlocking the creative abilities of a new generation across the State from 1 January 2019 when the program takes effect.<br \/>\nMinister for Finance, Services and Property Victor Dominello and Treasurer Dominic Perrottet today called on relevant providers to register with Service NSW so they can participate in the program.<br \/>\nParents will be able to use one voucher for every school-age child per year to help meet the cost of structured creative and cultural activities, such as music lessons, languages, coding, drama and theatre, photography and graphic design.<br \/>\n\u201cThe NSW Government has returned more than $200 million to households this calendar year through various cost of living incentives. Creative Kids will provide parents with even more hip pocket relief,\u201d Mr Dominello said.<br \/>\n\u201cThere are thousands of organisations out there who could be eligible for the program. We are calling on them to register with Service NSW so that parents can claim their $100 vouchers with them in the New Year.\u201d<br \/>\nMr Perrottet said: \u201cThis is a fantastic initiative that is only made possible because of our strong economic management.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWe can afford to deliver real savings that help the working families of NSW and reduce barriers to healthy activity.<br \/>\n\u201cThis program compliments the hugely popular Active Kids voucher and for a family with two children, Creative and Active Kids combined will save you $400 a year.\u201d<br \/>\nCreative Kids is one of a raft of NSW Government initiatives helping to ease cost of living pressure for households. Others include cheaper Green Slips and refunds, free car registration for regular toll users and the FuelCheck app.<br \/>\nFurther information including guidelines for providers is available at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.service.nsw.gov.au\/\">www.service.nsw.gov.au<\/a>\/creativekids<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NSW families will soon be able to access the new $100 Creative Kids voucher unlocking the creative abilities of a new generation across the State from 1 January 2019 when the program takes effect. Minister for Finance, Services and Property Victor Dominello and Treasurer Dominic Perrottet today called on relevant providers to register with Service &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2018\/11\/29\/nsw-creative-kids-program-a-step-closer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NSW CREATIVE KIDS PROGRAM A STEP CLOSER&#8221;<\/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-869","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\/869","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=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}