BC Early Learning Coalition

We’re talking lots about inclusion, but all the private sector feels is exclusion. Owners deserve to be heard and included in decision making.

Parents feeling betrayed and operators left with little information.
Daycares across the country do not feel comfortable taking the quality out of care.

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2022/06/09/daycare-operators-ontario-child-care-program/?fbclid=IwAR3OzRXdkmoF05_1u39Uv1-OjJSMyynUddMDpeCC7jBix0KZqYJTPggFNgE

Ontario's $10/day child-care program: Daycare operators wary about opting-in As parents anxiously wait to reap the benefits of Ontario’s child-care deal with the federal government, they might not know the program is not mandatory.

Children are the future, and what matters most is how we support them. Government should be putting every resource into ensuring the success of every child instead of making cuts to push campaigns.
Parents shouldn’t have to fight for fairness.

Concerns grow as some providers opt in for $10/day in Ontario and begin to face challenges

Ontario child care rebates starting to roll out but program remains a ‘patchwork’ | Globalnews.ca "Rather than have a co-ordinated, centralized system or a co-ordinated messaging about what a deal looks like for every provider across the province, it's a bit of a patchwork."

Child care will likely end up suffering if the Government continues to implement $10/day

Let’s not kid our­selves: Que­bec’s child­care is no model | National Post (Latest Edition) In its most re­cent bud­get, the fed­eral gov­ern­ment an­nounced its in­ten­tion to de­liver a Canada-wide early learn­ing and child­care plan. This fed­eral ex­pen­di­ture is one of the largest sin­gle items in the mas­sive bud­get doc­u­ment, com­ing in at $30 bil­lion...

Quality Child Care Matters!!

Here is some basic information about $10/day:

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Information below ⬇️

-The NDP Government has so far created 2,500 $10/day childcare spaces to date in BC since 2018.

-Budget 2021 outlined there would be the creation of 4,000 new spaces, this remains incomplete.

The NDP Government promises to create 12,500 $10/day spaces by the end of 2022. This also remains incomplete and they're nowhere close to this.

-The "creation" of $10/day childcare spaces does NOT mean the creation of "new" spaces. Instead, it is the conversion of MANY existing spaces, hence the invitation to sign up. The process to create actual new spaces is much slower and takes a long time.

-The NDP Government has a deal with the Federal Government that to receive further funding they must "create" 12,500 spaces by end of 2022.

-The NDP's main concern is to complete their agenda. It is NOT in the best interest of providers and families.

-Daycares are already running at full capacity with extensive waitlists. Without the creation of new spaces, BC's daycare crisis will become impossible to control.

-In 2021 The NDP Government restricted independent daycares from expanding. This pushed demand.

-In 2022 The NDP Government further restricted independent daycares from expanding and daycares began to close.

-In 2021 more than 100,000 people immigrated to BC, and 2022 is projected to be even higher.

-Demand is growing every month.

-The NDP is forcing a campaign agenda that is crippling our child care system and all families will be affected.

The NDP is wasting tax payers money.

-One childcare space created through the Government's public program costs taxpayers 57,000.00.

-The same spaces created by a private operator costs the operator $16,000.00.

-The Government needs to give families the funds directly so they can attend and afford daycare and keep the right to choose a program.

-Child Care Programs are not one size fits all.

-The Government needs to fund independent daycares to create more spaces to meet demand immediately.

-If people can't find child care they can't go to work.

-As we saw in the pandemic, when daycares are unavailable parents get desperate and leave their children with anyone they can find so they can work.

-We can't let this happen. We can't let this crisis continue.

All across Canada parents are starting the feel the strain of Government restrictions.
Daycares need the ability to operate as they need to so they can meet the needs of their families. Childcare is not one size fits all.

Change to daycare hours leaves some health-care workers in a bind | CBC News Some health-care workers who live in the Timberlea area are upset over the changes being made at their daycare. Willowbrae Academy is changing its business hours to 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. as of Sept. 1. The current hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Ontario daycares refuse to opt-in to the $10-a-day program due to lack of support and information from the Government.
The same will likely happen in BC.

'We just don’t have clear information': Nearly 250 GTA child care centres have applied for $10 a day program Nearly 250 child care centres have signalled their intent to opt into the federal government’s $10-a-day program since applications opened across most of the Greater Toronto Area last week but hundreds of others remain on the sidelines.

The real cost of $10-a-day child care.
The numbers just don’t add up!

https://c2cjournal.ca/2022/06/canadas-national-private-sector-childcare-destruction-program/?fbclid=IwAR2OhVX14VlzZZFX6S1u03ZI8v0q6xs3dn5WKCtqwdB0MDpL0Cb51Wuxw30

Canada’s National Private-Sector Childcare Destruction Program The laws of economics are crystal clear about what happens when prices fall dramatically. Demand rises in step. Such will be the inevitable result of Canada’s new national childcare program as parents respond to heavily-subsidized fees that will eventually drop to a mere $10 per day. But unless th

The childcare crisis in BC with Karin Kirkpatrick and Pamela Wallberg:
-What the $10-a-day program will mean for families trying to find care
-Issues with current prototype sites
-How the quality of programs will be affected
-The future of privately owned centres

Eye opening first hand information - click below to watch:

Childcare Crisis in BC

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Government funding programs delayed for months forcing daycare fees to be increased if left unresolved.
How can providers rely on a system with so many flaws.

B.C. daycares report delays in funding approval as more $10-a-day spaces announced | Globalnews.ca The B.C. government is committed to providing 3,750 spaces as part of the 2021 budget but that number has to increase to 12,500 spaces by the end of this year