Ontario Daycare
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Ontario seeks municipal daycare audits, raising cost-cutting concernsOntario has ordered municipalities that directly operate child-care centres to do a value-for-money audit to determine if they could instead be operated by a 'third party.'CanadaJan 31
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Ontario changes funding rules in bid to boost $10 a day child care program uptakeOntario is making further changes to its $10-a-day child-care program funding in a bid to boost uptake.CanadaOct 21, 2022
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Ontario child care rebates starting to roll out but program remains a ‘patchwork’"Rather than have a co-ordinated, centralized system or a co-ordinated messaging about what a deal looks like for every provider across the province, it's a bit of a patchwork."CanadaJul 12, 2022
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High cost of child care in Ontario could persist through the summerThe sky-high cost of child care in Ontario could persist through the summer months as several municipalities continue to overhaul their licensed daycare operations.PoliticsJun 15, 2022
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Ontario submits child-care plan just ahead of looming deadlineOntario remains the only jurisdiction in the country to not pen a deal with the Trudeau Government for $10 a day childcare.PoliticsMar 8, 2022
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Education workers left out of child care provision during Ontario’s coronavirus lockdown: unionThe Canadian Union of Public Employees says many of its 20,000 members set to work in schools next week are parents who have no child-care options available to them.EducationJan 1, 2021
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Inconsistent funding delays daycare reopening in some Ontario municipalities, group saysInconsistent funding for licensed child-care centres means facilities in some Ontario municipalities may not be able to reopen or expand capacity even as the province allows them to accept more children, an industry association said Monday.HealthJul 27, 2020
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Kingston, Ont., daycare prepares, adjusts to new rules amid coronavirus reopeningThis week, the provincial government announced that all child-care centres will be allowed to reopen under strict guidelines.CanadaJun 12, 2020
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Coronavirus: Most child-care centres in Ontario unlikely to reopen on Friday, operators and advocates say"This is really a two-to-three-week turnaround for redoing all of our policies and procedures, for cleaning ... for training staff, for making sure we have enough staff."HealthJun 11, 2020
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Coronavirus: Ontario orders closed child care centres to stop collecting payments, protects spacesThe emergency order, which also temporarily protects the spaces of children, was announced Friday afternoon.HealthApr 10, 2020
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