For-profit and non-profit child-care operators are still waiting for a ‘cost control framework’ on what they are allowed to spend new federal money on
Christine Pasmore runs an animal program at her child-care centre in Grande Prairie, Alta., so that her young charges can play
for child-care operators and subsidies for parents. But both for-profit and non-profit operators are still waiting for a “cost control framework” that will apply to them equally and set out what they are allowed to spend that federal money on and what they can charge parents.67 per cent of licensed spaces in Alberta – face an additional issue. Under the agreement, for-profit spaces created after March, 2022, aren’t eligible for the current phase of funding.
The ambiguity of what counts as “reasonable” is unsettling operators who are nervous about their ability to stay in business, says Krystal Churcher, the owner of a child-care centre in Fort McMurray and chair of the Association of Alberta Childcare Entrepreneurs, a group formed in response to the recent uncertainties.
How the cost control framework will address centres that have opened since Alberta signed the deal, or newly created spaces at previously existing centres, is also of major concern to operators, Ms. Churcher says. as a result, and is giving families a $500-a-month discount each in the hope of eventually getting grant funding.
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