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Opinion | Why provinces must meet the call of the federal daycare funding boost
Canada’s journey toward a universal, $10-a-day child-care system has reached an important crossroads with the federal government’s recent announcement of an additional $5.4 billion over two years to bolster the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care (CWELCC) system.
Opinion: B.C.’s child-care program, once a front-runner, now has the most expensive fees in Canada
Breadcrumb Trail Links Home Opinion Op-Ed British Columbians support the implementation of $10-a-day child care by overwhelming margins, with a recent poll showing 82 per cent agree it's important for B.C. to deliver on $10-a-day commitments, write Sharon Gregson and Geoff Meggs. Photo by DARRYL DYCK /THE CANADIAN PRESS Article content Day after day, week after week, thousands of young parents across B.C. are seeing their dreams of $10-a-day childcare vaporize.
Sharon Gregson: Too many roadblocks remain for the child care system
There are high hopes for growing BC’s $10aDay child care system - but is it actually going to happen? If so, when? Families desperate for government’s child care election promises to come true have high hopes of finding an affordable licensed space. Early childhood educators have high hopes for a fair wage grid as promised in the mandate letter of the Minister of State for Child Care, Grace Lore.
Sharon Gregson: Our child care successes can't stop here
There’s been amazing progress on child care in B.C. over the last few years, so why are child care advocates concerned now? Our province led the country by being first to introduce $10aDay child care programs in 2018. Families now pay no more than $10 a day in about 13,000 spaces across the province, and for those not yet in a $10aDay space their fees have been reduced by up to $900 a month.
Sharon Gregson and Lynell Anderson: Here’s the roadmap to $10-a-day child care in B.C.
Opinion: The for-profit business model doesn’t work for child care. It is not the way to grow a system. The way forward is to invest taxpayers’ funds in new public and non-profit facilities that will be long-term community assets Author of the article: Sharon Gregson and Lynell Anderson We knew child care was important before the pandemic, say Sharon Gregson and Lynell Anderson of the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of B.C. Now everyone knows it’s an essential service.
BC’s Childcare Investments Are Commendable. Now It’s Time to Double Down
Opinion | BC Politics Taking stock of the government’s efforts, and what’s still needed. Sharon Gregson Today | TheTyee.ca Sharon Gregson is the spokesperson for the $10aDay Child Care Campaign. She is a mother of four and has spent decades working for a quality affordable childcare system in B.C. and Canada.
Opinion: May is Child Care Month in B.C.: Finally, something to celebrate
Lower parent fees well underway. Next priorities — improve educator wages, more licensed spaces.May is Child Care Month in B.C. This year, we have something big to celebrate — a government commitment to high quality, affordable child care for all who choose it and a budget and a plan to start implementation.
How the Fight for Child Care Was Won
As 2018 starts and families with young children scramble in the midst of B.C.’s child-care chaos, we’re waiting with hope that Finance Minister Carole James will announce at least $225 million in new spending to improve child care in her February budget. Make no mistake. If, as expected, significant progress on child care comes in the budget, it will show the success of the $10aDay campaign for a popular, well-researched, realistic solution to the worsening child-care crisis in our province.
1,000 Families Project: Sharon, Thomas, Ben, Nick, Emily and Lizzy
Today’s 1,000 Families post—number 100 in the series—tells the story of a Harley Davidson-riding mother of four who is out to fix the child care crisis in this country. In 1987 I was a very young single mother living in British Columbia with my two sons, Ben, 1, and Nick, 2. I desperately wanted to move off social assistance and return to university. I was accepted at Simon Fraser University and thought I had it all figured out because I knew there was campus child care.
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