Investments through ChildCareBC’s New Spaces Fund are helping create more than 290 new child care spaces for school-aged children, and enabling more families in Surrey to access licensed child care spaces on school grounds, with more to come.

Professional skills training is helping prepare as many as 45 people for jobs as crisis-response and mental-health workers in the Lower Mainland.

More families in Surrey will save thousands of dollars per year as 61 local child care spaces convert to the $10-a-day program, helping familes get ahead and building high-quality, affordable and accessible child care as a core service in B.C.

Students and families will benefit as hundreds of new school spaces open in Surrey. 

Residents of Surrey and White Rock will soon have greater access to more nutritious food through grants to local food security projects.