NDP Child Care

• Liberals vs. Conservatives on childcare: Which parents would benefit most under each plan?

  If you have or expect to have kids in child care in the next few years, here's a look at how child care proposals from the Liberals and Conservatives would benefit you.

  Money

  Sep 14, 2021
  
• B.C. Liberal MLA defends remarks calling parents staying at home with kids ‘universal child care’

  The B.C. Liberal critic for child care is defending controversial comments he made over child care spaces.

  Politics

  May 2, 2019
  
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• B.C. eyes 22,000 new childcare spaces with $221-million capital fund

  Non-profit groups who team up with public organizations could get up to $1 million to completely fund an expansion.

  Jul 6, 2018
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• B.C. rolls out $750,000 in child care grants with more to come ‘soon’

  The province has set a target of creating 22,000 new child care spaces over the coming year.

  Jun 21, 2018
• Nanaimo daycare says it can’t get answers on rejected subsidy application

  It's the latest complaint from a daycare operator about the province's childcare fee subsidy roll out.

  Canada

  Jun 13, 2018
• Ministry staff racking up overtime amid B.C. child-care rollout

  Staff have worked 1,380 overtime hours processing new child-care fee reduction contracts since mid-March.

  May 3, 2018
• Days before new B.C. child care deadline, providers say they’re still in the dark

  Child care operators say it's radio silence from the province about whether they're approved for new fee reductions.

  Apr 18, 2018
• ‘The math doesn’t make sense’: daycares anxious on eve of NDP childcare rollout

  "There's a lot more questions that have come up now that the contracts are out. The math doesn't make sense."

  Canada

  Mar 20, 2018
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• Will kids in unlicensed child care be left out of BC NDP’s $1B plan?

  B.C.'s new $1B child care program applies only to licensed providers. But what about kids in other programs?

  Canada

  Feb 22, 2018