Just in time for the return to school, more families in the Nanaimo region are benefiting from an initiative creating new child care spaces on school grounds.

School District 91 Nechako Lakes will introduce a new program to reduce the burden on busy families by opening early child care on school grounds.

More families in Chilliwack are benefiting from increased access to new child care centres on school grounds with more than 130 new spaces opening in time for the return to school.

Students and staff of Parkcrest elementary school are moving into a modern and expanded building this year to replace the former school destroyed by fire.

Students of Masset are now learning in a safer school that includes Canada’s first-ever tsunami evacuation tower to better protect the community.

Rachna Singh, Minister of Education and Child Care, has issued the following statement as students return to school:

The growing community of Nanaimo will soon have more student spaces at Wellington Secondary school as part of the government’s plan to expand schools quicker.