A 10-minute walk from Linda Scott’s home is a small community kindergarten where she had hoped to send her three-year-old daughter, Remi.

But Scott’s application for a place was denied by Glen Eira Council which, unlike some others in the area, does not give residents priority access to their local kindergarten.

Linda Scott, with husband Liam Cooney and daughter Remi, wants the council to change the way it allocates kindergarten places so local families have priority. Credit: Simon Schluter

Instead, Remi was assigned a place at a kindergarten in Elsternwick, six kilometres from her home in Bentleigh.

Travelling to and from Elsternwick twice a day would mean an hour in the car for Scott, instead of walking around the corner to Bentleigh West Kindergarten.

Scott is among a group of

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