Katrine Conroy, Minister of Children and Family Development, and Katrina Chen, Minister of State for Child Care, have issued the following statement recognizing the importance of Child Care Month in B.C.:

Indigenous communities will have greater involvement in child-welfare decisions to help keep their children out of care, safe in their home communities, and connected to their cultures under proposed legislation changes that were announced by the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD).

There is still time to get nominations in for this year’s Child and Youth in Care Awards, with a deadline of Friday, April 20, 2018.

British Columbia parents with children in licensed care will start seeing child care savings of up to $350 a month as early as April, said Premier John Horgan.

The British Columbia government is extending the deadline for child-care providers to opt into the new child-care fee reduction, to allow more providers to pass on savings to parents for their April child-care fees, Katrina Chen, Minister of State for Child Care, announced today.

Tracy Beynon is a child protection intake worker who grew up in Prince Rupert. She knows that sometimes just greeting a family member in the traditional Sm’algyax (Tsimshian) language — “Ndaayu wila waan”— can be a simple way to show respect, and ease some of the tensions when she first enters a home to follow up on a child-welfare report.