Manitoba to reform child-care system, spend $6.2M to add more space
EXCERPTSThe Manitoba government is investing more than $6 million to create up to 739 new licensed child-care spaces, while also promising to modernize the early-learning system.Tackling some of the...
View ArticleIncrease funding for a national child care program: Editorial
EXCERPTSThe good news, according to the signals early childhood education advocates are getting out of Ottawa, is that next week’s federal budget will include multi-year funding for child care.The bad...
View ArticleChanges proposed for P.E.I. child care registry
EXCERPTSThe group that runs P.E.I.'s child care registry is proposing changes that it hopes will result in more daycares actually following it. The Early Childhood Development Association says it's...
View ArticleRare 24-hour daycare has 800 families on wait list
EXCERPTSWhen Amanda Bullock began looking at daycares during her first pregnancy, she might as well have been looking for a unicorn.A Barrie, Ont.-based child-protection worker, Ms. Bullock’s job...
View ArticleFact Check: Can the NDP deliver on $10-a-day child care?
EXCERPTSJohn Horgan’s New Democrats promise to spend up to $1.5 billion a year on child care over next decade.Child care — it's a crushing concern for many young B.C. families.Right now, it costs an...
View ArticleReport calls for 30,000 new child-care spaces in Toronto by 2026
EXCERPTSToronto’s Community Development and Recreation Committee will debate a report on Thursday that calls for the creation of 30,000 new child-care spaces in the city by 2026.Earlier this year,...
View ArticleCity's after-school daycares to exclude kids under 6
EXCERPTSDespite hopes that the province would grant an exception, children younger than six years old will officially be banned this fall from before-and-after-school programs run by the City of...
View ArticleDemand for daycare workers in Saskatchewan a growing concern
EXCERPTSThe deficit isn't the only issue the Saskatchewan government will wrestle with in 2017.The ongoing issues surrounding funding and staffing for licensed daycares in the province are not going...
View ArticleNew Happy Valley-Goose Bay child care centre celebrates official opening
EXCERPTSHAPPY VALLEY-GOOSE BAY, N.L. — A childcare facility years in the making officially opened its doors Aug. 4 in Happy Valley-Goose Bay.The new facility can hold more than 120 children, and...
View ArticleA survey of child care needs in Langley City and Township has launched
Planners will use findings to plan new child care spaces EXCERPTSA child care survey of Langley residents will show there are still far more children than daycare spaces, Township of Langley...
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