Child care centres across Nova Scotia are converting 570 spaces to support families with infants, toddlers and after school care.
The provincial and federal governments announced today that $2.7 million will help a total of 51 centres expand their service.
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Of that total, 144 new spaces will be dedicated to infants, 346 will be spaces for toddlers and 80 spaces will go to pre-primary care.
In January, the province signed a three-year, $35-million early learning and child care funding agreement with Ottawa.
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A portion of that funding has been set aside to support improvements to regulated child care for children, families and child care centre operators.