Katrine Conroy, Minister of Children and Family Development, has issued the following statement in response to the June 19, 2019, report from the Office of the Auditor General of British Columbia on the oversight of contracted residential services for children and youth in care:

These days, Kimberly Alaric is mapping out her own flight plan for a bright future after a turbulent upbringing.

For the first time in a long time, families in Hagensborg will have access to licensed child care for children under the age of five, helping parents go back to work or school, while their children receive quality child care.

Parents in Fort St. John who want to go back to school or return to work but need child care have more opportunities to do so, with two new child care centres in their community.

Young children in Castlegar will soon have the opportunity to learn in both of Canada’s official languages in a newly renovated, multi-age child care space set to open in July 2019.

Golden Child Daycare will soon have twice as many licensed child care spaces in a more accessible facility, in part due to a $202,712 investment through the Province’s Childcare BC New Spaces Fund.