Childcare centres need not open on Saturdays from 2025

Pre-school operators also indicated that it is inefficient to deploy educators on Saturdays to look after a small group of children. - ST FILE

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Early childhood educators will have a five-day work week from Jan 1, 2025, when childcare centres will no longer be mandated to provide their services on Saturdays.

This is part of ongoing efforts to improve the teachers’ working conditions, said the Early Childhood Development Agency (ECDA) on Wednesday (July 12).