Ontario Child Care
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Cap on for-profit centres hampering growth of $10-a-day child-care system in OntarioOntario municipalities have been forced to turn down thousands of child-care spaces in the $10-a-day system because of a limit on the percentage of for-profit spaces.CanadaJul 9
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Land, buildings sought as need for Peterborough County child-care spaces surgesAs of April, there are 3,700 children in Peterborough city and county on a wait-list for a child-care service.CanadaApr 17
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Meet an Ontario family who say they’re out of options for child careMegan Saunders, 34, thought she was doing everything right to secure child care early on, but now she is finding herself in an impossible situation.EducationMar 15
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Child-care wait lists balloon in many Ontario regions amid $10-a-day programChild-care wait lists have ballooned across Ontario since the province signed on to the national $10-a-day program.CanadaMar 1
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New Toronto school child care centres face uncertainty amid cost concernsToronto school boards are calling on the province of Ontario for more funding to build new child care facilities in schools across the city.PoliticsMar 1
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Ontario ECEs among lowest paid in Canada, advocates sayAdvocates say that ECEs in Ontario are among the lowest paid in the country, and say that raising their wages is critical to the success of the $10-a-day child-care program.CanadaOct 17, 2023
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Ontario’s lower child care fees could see 100,000 more women in workforce: reportThe FAO says $10-a-day child care has the potential to see nearly 100,000 more women enter the labour market, but only if the government creates more daycare spaces.CanadaMay 16, 2023
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Closure by province followed ‘serious occurrence’ with new hire, London, Ont. child care centre saysThe protection order for Kidorable Child Care Centre came after inspectors attended the facility on Feb. 6 in response to an unspecified "incident," a ministry spokesperson says.CanadaFeb 16, 2023
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Ontario seeks to add 50K child care spots, focusing on underserved areasOntario committed in its March 2022 deal with the feds to create 86,000 new spaces, and since it counts spots that have opened since 2019, it has about 50,000 more to go.CanadaFeb 7, 2023
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Government officials estimate Ontario could be short 8,500 early childhood educatorsThat's when parents will be paying $10-a-day on average for child care, and the province expects to have added 86-thousand new spaces to meet the increased demand.EducationJan 14, 2023
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