Tuesday, February 18, 2020 1:45 PM
Budget 2020 moves British Columbia forward by building the infrastructure the growing province needs, supporting thousands of new jobs, strengthening investments in health and education and making life more affordable for everyone.
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Tuesday, September 24, 2019 10:15 AM
Families throughout British Columbia will have better access to closer-to-home child care, thanks to new provincial guidelines that allow local governments to pair funding programs and purchase land to create new child care spaces.
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Monday, July 15, 2019 9:00 AM
A significant increase in funding will help public-sector and non-profit organizations create more publicly owned and operated child care spaces in their communities, bringing child care closer to home and making life more affordable for B.C. families.
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Approximately 2,300 new child care spaces are coming to schools, community centres and other public facilities across Vancouver, making routines easier for busy parents and helping young children transition smoothly into the school system.
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Friday, May 31, 2019 2:45 PM
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.
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Friday, May 31, 2019 9:25 AM
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.
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Friday, May 31, 2019 9:20 AM
Parents will have more options to return to the workforce or pursue training to further their education as the Cowichan Valley School District (SD79) and non-profit organizations in the valley are partnering to create 161 new licensed child care spaces.
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Thursday, May 23, 2019 10:30 AM
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.
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Wednesday, May 22, 2019 9:15 AM
Parents in the Shuswap region have more options for child care with the addition of 19 new licensed child care spaces in the area, including the first licensed family child care centre in Sicamous.
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Tuesday, May 21, 2019 11:15 AM
A new child care centre in West Kelowna will soon provide local families with quality licensed child care spaces.
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Thursday, May 9, 2019 8:30 AM
Parents in Delta searching for child care now have relief with 107 new licensed spaces in two new child care centres.
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Wednesday, May 8, 2019 10:00 AM
There were days when Katrina Chen was rushing out to another work event, and her young son, Yoann, would shout out, “Can’t someone else look after the kids just for today?”
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Wednesday, May 1, 2019 11:00 AM
Katrina Chen, Minister of State for Child Care, has released the following statement in response to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternative’s report entitled Working for a Living Wage 2019:
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